The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when we consider the size of the Sun – the solar atmosphere, also ...

Periodic storms in Texas this week may paint the sky orange. Here's the science behind changing colors during weather events.

Little by little (or perhaps not so little by little), science is answering questions and solving mysteries about the universe, at least as far as we know. It ...

The flare might just inspire a display of Northern Lights even in Illinois, Oregon, Alabama, and Northern California.

In a startling case of star-ception, our sun, which is a star, appears to have its own "shooting stars" streaking through its white-hot atmosphere. Technically, these solar "shooting stars" aren't ...

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived a three year journey and a roughly 2 million degree Fahrenheit environment to do what was previously thought impossible: enter the sun's atmosphere. The probe's ...

Scientists from Dublin, Ireland and Paris, France just reported some amazing observations from a massive ultraviolet radio telescope in central France: they managed to image radio pulses and watch ...

For the first time, a spacecraft has made contact with the sun. During a recent flyby, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe entered the sun’s atmosphere. “We have finally arrived,” Nicola Fox, director of NASA’s ...

The fact that the Sun's distant atmosphere is significantly hotter than its surface has been a topic of confusion in astrophysics for decades. Now, however, researchers may have identified a solar ...

Huw Morgan receives funding from STFC (UKRI), Leverhulme, and European Regional Development Funds through the Welsh Government. The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C.