For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its ...

Scientists have spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may explain why the sun's corona is much hotter ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

Using the world's most powerful solar telescope, researchers secured the first direct evidence of tiny, twisting Alfvén waves ...

Humans love a spot of pareidolia, our ability to see faces in things that do not have faces. But the Sun is definitely ...

For decades, scientists have been scratching their heads over one of the Sun’s most baffling mysteries: why is its outer ...

The discovery could explain how the corona's temperature greatly exceeds that of the Sun's surface, and identify a key driver ...

New research conducted by an international team of physicians has found that high-energy gamma rays might offer the key to ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed a face-like pattern on the Sun, creating a perfectly timed Halloween image.

The color of the sun is actually white, though it may look yellow. If you were to get close enough to the sun, which you can't actually do, you'd be able to see its true color. The light rays from the ...