The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

PUNCH Spacecraft Show First Complete Images Of Sun’s Corona And Solar Wind Together In A Nutshell Four suitcase-sized ...

Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

A comet tail pointing toward the Sun sounds like a mistake-but that is exactly the geometry Comet 3I/ATLAS put on display as ...

A mesmerising side-view video of a massive solar flare goes viral with eerie crackling sounds from real Nasa data.

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

The sharpest images ever captured of the sun reveal intricate magnetic structures dancing across its surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang on ...

Nour Rawafi, a project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, explained that there had been previous ...