The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

The Sun's magnetic field does impact the movement of plasma on the Sun's surface, but it does not actually impact the amount ...

They say beauty is only skin deep, and apparently so is the Sun’s magnetic field, according to a recent study. The Sun’s magnetic field is shallow, suggests new research, which used computer ...

A viral image circulating on social media purports to show a clear close-up view of the face of the star at the center of the solar system. "One of the most clear pictures of the sun's surface," reads ...

The Sun’s magnetic field is invisible to our eyes, but it quietly shapes everything from the shimmering auroras over the ...

It’s the dawn of a new day in terms of our conception of the Sun, as physicists have just unleashed a new, state-of-the-art solar observatory on the island of Maui in Hawaii, the likes of which have ...

Looking at the sun through a telescope can cause serious damage to your health and vision, so how exactly are we meant to get pictures of the Sun's surface if we can't even look at it? Well, that's ...

Scientists have uncovered new details about the mysterious origin of seismic activity on the sun during solar flares. The sun intermittently unleashes electromagnetic energy in bright, sudden ...

(CNN) — New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter observes ...

The sun's core rotates nearly four times faster than the sun's surface, an international team of astronomers reports. The most likely explanation is that this core rotation is left over from the ...