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 ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...

They say beauty is only skin deep, and apparently so is the Sun’s magnetic field, according to a recent study. The Sun’s magnetic field is shallow, suggests new research, which used computer ...

Our Sun is far from a smooth, white ball in the sky. Twisting and looping magnetic field lines rise from its surface like hair, causing dark, transient patches on the surface called sunspots wherever ...

The Sun's magnetic field impacts the movement of plasma on the sun's surface, but it does not actually impact the amount of heat the sun emits. Solar flares, for example, are huge explosions that ...

(CNN) — New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter observes ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun, about 16.9 ...

A new model contradicts previous theories that the sun's magnetic field originates deep inside its interior. Deep origin theories could not explain rotation patterns of the sun's gas near its surface ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called ...