Imagine for a minute that you have been transported to the middle layers of the sun’s atmosphere. The sun’s surface, the “visible disc” scientists call the photosphere, boils below you, red-hot plasma ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

Small-scale magnetic structures of the ‘quiet sun’ at high resolution. Credit: DKIST Astronomers are one step closer to understanding one of the most enduring solar mysteries, having captured ...

How was the sun formed, what are its layers, and how does it impacts Earth? The sun is a medium sized dwarf star in the Milky Way galaxy and it is what fuels all life on our planet. Find out how the ...