Mysterious Shadows Revealed How Earth Is Connected to The Sun, Stuns Scientists A study of surprising findings into how the ...

Now the cell is ready for the sun. As sunlight hits the cell, its photons begin "knocking loose" electrons in both silicon layers. These newly freed electrons dart around each layer but are ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years ...

“If you want to understand the Sun in its entirety, it is essential to look into all its layers simultaneously and with high resolution,” said Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki, MPS Director and PHI ...

The surface is 10,000 degrees, but for reasons unknown, the corona, or the sun’s outermost atmospheric layer, gets hotter the farther out you go, reaching 3.5 million degrees, scientists say.

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe ventured into the star’s corona — the outermost layer of its atmosphere — during humanity’s closest-ever approach to the sun. At 11:53 UTC (6:53 a ...