The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

Due to its immense distance, the Sun appears from Earth as a gentle, radiant, and serene star. In reality, however, it is a turbulent, dynamic sphere of plasma with unimaginably high temperatures.

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of particles that shoot out from the Sun.

A massive 500,000-mile coronal hole on the Sun is sending high-speed solar wind toward Earth, increasing the risk of ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...