The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS brought material from another planetary system within reach of our telescopes, but reading ...

Astronomers are one step closer to understanding one of the most enduring solar mysteries, having captured unprecedented data from the sun's magnetic field. The groundbreaking data collected from the ...

The Sun’s seemingly peaceful regions are hiding a surprisingly complex magnetic world. Using a balloon-borne telescope high above Earth, scientists discovered delicate, thread-like magnetic structures ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising explanation for the Sun’s rapidly spinning plasma jets: they may not be spinning as they appear. A new international study, published in The Astrophysical ...

Astronomers have finally unraveled the enigma of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, is significantly hotter than its surface. While the Sun’s surface temperature is about 5,500 ...

Imagine for a minute that you have been transported to the middle layers of the sun’s atmosphere. The sun’s surface, the “visible disc” scientists call the photosphere, boils below you, red-hot plasma ...

The Sun’s extremely hot outer layer, the corona, has a very different chemical composition from the cooler inner layers, but the reason for this has puzzled scientists for decades. One explanation is ...

How hot is the sun? Here are the scorching temperatures of the star's layers The sun provides energy that is vital for life on Earth, and that energy comes as a result of the sun’s heat. But how hot ...