Scientists have spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may explain why the sun's corona is much hotter ...

The finding, based on data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, marks the first direct evidence of tiny ...

For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its ...

For decades, scientists have tried to understand how the Sun's corona (outer atmosphere) gets so blisteringly hot while its ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

Astrophotographer Mark Johnstron captured a mesmerizing cloud of hydrogen plasma dancing above the sun's limb in this ...

Using the world's most powerful solar telescope, researchers secured the first direct evidence of tiny, twisting Alfvén waves ...

Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

The discovery could explain how the corona's temperature greatly exceeds that of the Sun's surface, and identify a key driver ...

Humans love a spot of pareidolia, our ability to see faces in things that do not have faces. But the Sun is definitely ...