The largest solar telescope in Europe has released unprecedented close-up images of the sun — and they are a little bit terrifying. GREGOR, a telescope operated by a team of German scientists at the ...

A space photographer has shared an image of a huge prominence on the surface of the sun that is speculated to be coming apart. Solar prominences are large, bright loops of plasma—electrically charged ...

The Parker Solar Probe has now traced the sun’s outer frontier in unprecedented detail, turning a once-theoretical boundary into a mapped region of real, measured structure. By skimming through the ...

Fine grained structures have been detected in the sun’s outer corona. In a paper published on July 18 in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of scientists led by Craig DeForest — solar physicist at ...

The banana-size solar flares could lead to a better understanding of high-energy solar physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The closer scientists zoom in on our sun, the more details they see. The sun, like all stars, is a roiling mass of superhot charged particles called plasma. But it's not the most conducive to close ...