Incredible new images of the sun's surface provide an unprecedented view of sunspots and other solar activity.

Learn how the European Space Agency's spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit.

A powerful telescope focused on the sun has returned otherworldly, high-quality photos showing the surface of our solar system's star. The telescope, operated by the National Science Foundation ...

A solar telescope perched on the summit of Haleakalā, the dormant volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui, captured new granular images of the sun ... views of our solar system’s most ...

and go streaming across the solar system. The sunspot regions shown in the images are a study in contrast. Bright hot plasma flows upward on the sun’s surface, while darker, cooler plasma flows ...

From an early age, we are taught to understand that the planets of our solar system ... at the sun's poles: 'This is just the first step of Solar Orbiter's stairway to heaven' (images) Related ...