It might look like a regular patch of Sun, but what you are looking at in the image above is a sight humanity has never seen before. It's actually the Sun's south pole, and our first-ever glimpse of ...

The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.

Images of a total solar eclipse provide a unique scientific opportunity to view otherwise invisible parts of the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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A large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The unusually old dark patch remains stable and could be on course to become the ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system.