It sort of looks like a honeycomb of hot gas, or a hazelnut croquant.
A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures.
A unique, multi-agency exercise showed how ill-prepared we are for unfavorable space weather.
The molecular cloud is brimming with material that could birth baby stars.
Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.
The first images from a nascent NASA mission showcased the spacecraft's ability to take deep-field images of the night sky.
An uncommon double solar eruption has sent two coronal mass ejections towards Earth, which are expected to arrive Wednesday.
The rare event revealed never-before-seen behaviors of a planetary atmosphere.
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter's instruments captured an extreme stream of wind from our host star.
The jets were first discovered in 2023, and new evidence reveals they drive both fast and slow solar wind.
Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to new research.
The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in the new year.
Parker Solar Probe will break its silence on Friday—that is, if it survived its closest approach to the Sun.
At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our host star.
A survey of Sun-like stars found that they produce a superflare roughly once per century.
The recent geomagnetic storms have resulted in a mass migration of satellites in low Earth orbit.
The damage caused by the flooding won't be repaired before 2025, a troubling pause given the Sun's current phase in its 11-year cycle.
The Sun-observing mission is set for launch on Wednesday at 5:38 a.m. ET.
The spunky probe's final gravity assist around Venus will put it on track to break records near the Sun next month.
The event could cause glowing in the atmosphere and damage electrical infrastructure when it arrives, but we won't know the severity of the event until it's near.
