The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image showing the surface of the sun in great detail. The fiery surface of the sun is the star of an incredible new photograph ...

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 ...

Looking at the sun through a telescope can cause serious damage to your health and vision, so how exactly are we meant to get pictures of the Sun's surface if we can't even look at it? Well, that's ...

A spacecraft from the European Space Agency has captured new video of the sun's surface, showing plasma swirling on the star's "otherworldly" surface, according to a news release from the organization ...

NASA and the European Space Agency released the closest pictures of the sun ever taken last week. Animation courtesy of Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL Our ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have usedrare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent structures of the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. This discovery, ...

The sun's surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed ...

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 ...