Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

Unlike earlier studies, which often examined chemistry and atmospheric motion separately, the new simulations combined both.

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

On its closest-ever flyby to the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured newly released images of solar winds purging out from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the Corona. Scientists are learning more ...

When astronomers first spotted a faint, fast-moving object racing through the outer Solar System in mid-2025, few expected it ...

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like empty space and more like a furnace, where charged particles heat to tens of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...