Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

By studying the Sun’s acoustic waves, scientists are uncovering its hidden dynamics, refining stellar models, and influencing ...

Aegean Dreams The island of Santorini in Greece is famous for its iconic sunsets. Crowds gather in the village of Oia to ...

“If you want to understand the Sun in its entirety, it is essential to look into all its layers simultaneously and with high resolution,” said Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki, MPS Director and PHI ...

Once the core starts to become unstable, the outer layers of the Sun will expand. That expansion will eventually swallow up Mercury and Venus. Additionally, rough solar winds from the Sun will ...

Concurrently, it's ejecting potent layers of radiation, known as the solar wind, in our direction. Scientists from NOAA ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

Now the cell is ready for the sun. As sunlight hits the cell, its photons begin "knocking loose" electrons in both silicon layers. These newly freed electrons dart around each layer but are ...

boasts surface and outer atmospheric temperatures ranging from 10,000 to 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit on its surface and its atmosphere's outermost layer. This intense heat causes the sun to ...

Scientists hope the probe will help explain why the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere, like its corona, are so much hotter than the surface of the star itself. In order to get close to the sun ...