The largest solar telescope in Europe has released unprecedented close-up images of the sun — and they are a little bit terrifying. GREGOR, a telescope operated by a team of German scientists at the ...

Three observations emerge from the latest forensic analysis that demand immediate scientific attention: The object displays ...

A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in Earth's magnetic field for the first time. The ...

How does the Sun’s interior function and produce the energy needed to allow life to exist on the Earth? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of ...

Fine grained structures have been detected in the sun’s outer corona. In a paper published on July 18 in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of scientists led by Craig DeForest — solar physicist at ...

A spectacular solar feature has been caught in action by the Solar Orbiter mission. On March 17, 2025, the spacecraft ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

While scientists have been learning more and more about our solar system and the way things work, many of our Sun's mechanics still remain a mystery. In advance of the launch of the Parker Solar Probe ...

Today's weather forecast on the sun calls for a high of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius), constant supersonic wind, mysterious eruptions of giant lava-lamp-blobs and, oh yes, light ...

Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun's flow of high-speed solar wind. This first look at relatively ...