NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed a face-like pattern on the Sun, creating a perfectly timed Halloween image.

For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is briefly out of view as it travels around the sun this week, but researchers and amateur ...

For decades, scientists have been scratching their heads over one of the Sun’s most baffling mysteries: why is its outer ...

NASA's SDO captured a jack-o'-lantern-like face on the sun as a coronal hole sends solar wind toward Earth ahead of Halloween ...

The culprit is once again the magnetic field of the Sun. Instead of field lines extending out from the Sun and then back into ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

New research conducted by an international team of physicians has found that high-energy gamma rays might offer the key to unlocking the mysteries of the sun's magnetic fields.

Researchers have directly observed torsional Alfvén waves twisting through the Sun’s corona — magnetic waves first predicted ...

Newly unveiled images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have revealed a spectacular cosmic event, a massive jet of gas and ...

The surface of our sun is a wild, violent place and now we can see it in exquisite detail, thanks to the first images returned by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope ...

To illustrate this week’s cover on TIME's 2025 list of the 100 most influential climate leaders, we reached out to an artist ...