Helioseismic data traces the solar dynamo to the tachocline about 200,000 km down.

New observations are helping scientists peer beneath the Sun’s surface, revealing where its magnetic activity may truly begin ...

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Sharpest-ever view of the Sun’s surface, using the NSF ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter observes ...

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 ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called ...