With one solar radius being 695,700 kilometers (432,288 miles), the structure extended up to 2,087,100 kilometers (1,296,864 miles). The twisting flow is driven by a phenomenon known as Alfvén waves.

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere known as the photosphere, according to a statement from the National Solar ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...