New images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft are giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun’s volatile lower atmosphere and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind solar eruptions ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission has obtained a stunning high-res image of the sun's upper atmosphere.

Scientists hope that the craft will also be able to help answer some big questions, including how are solar winds formed and what heats up the upper layers of the Sun atmosphere.

NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...

If you happen to be enjoying a sunny day, thank the bright surface of the sun, known as the photosphere. At a piping hot ...

The US National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured a groundbreaking image of the Sun.

The outer layer will ... any remaining atmosphere or ocean. If the Earth survived, it would be a rocky slag orbiting a white dwarf. Read also which planets will survive when the Sun goes out.

The Earth has a fascinating atmosphere that contains several unique layers The Troposphere is the layer that we live in, it ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

The PUNCH mission completed spacecraft commissioning this week, opening its instrument doors to capture “first light,” the mission’s first images of the sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...