The weather forecast on the sun: rainy with a chance of space fireballs. Astronomers have discovered a phenomenon that causes the sun to form enormous objects similar to meteors or "shooting stars" in ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...

The Sun’s extremely hot outer layer, the corona, has a very different chemical composition from the cooler inner layers, but the reason for this has puzzled scientists for decades. One explanation is ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists threw everything they had at the sky during the solar eclipse that swept across much of the United States on April 8, 2024. They deployed high-altitude aircraft, enlisted ...

Since launching in February of 2020, the Solar Orbiter probe has been zeroing in on the Sun with a suite of instruments designed to unravel some of its secrets. Among those is an advanced ultraviolet ...

Our sun, a giant ball of plasma, is a magnetically messy place. It hosts plasma layers in place of its solid surface, and each layer rotates at a different speed. The result is a tangled, turbulent ...

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The corona undergoes constant restructuring as coronal rain falls toward the surface. Credit: Schmidt et al./NJIT/NSO/AURA/NSF When imaging objects in space, distance isn't the only challenge: Earth's ...