Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

But for Earth and the other planets that revolve around it, the sun is a powerful center of attention. It holds the solar system together; provides life-giving light, heat, and energy to Earth ...

A team of scientists has produced the clearest images of the Sun’s corona ever captured, thanks to an innovative new system ...

Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) As tempting as it is to cite one, no single number can describe the temperature of the whole Sun. Its layers are at ...

The solar system is enveloped by a huge bubble called the heliosphere. Made of charged particles generated by the sun, the heliosphere shields planets and other objects from high-speed ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system. According to the nebular hypothesis, our star system formed from the ...