The Parker Solar Probe discovered that while the solar wind is a steady breeze near Earth, it is anything but at the sun. The spacecraft experienced switchbacks, or zigzag magnetic fields, when it ...

This was the Solar Orbiter mission’s first high-angle observation campaign of the sun, conducted at an angle of 15 degrees below the solar equator. Just a few days after snapping these images ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest-ever approach to the sun last December, and we're finally getting a look at some of the images it captured. The space agency released a ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity. The image ...

For decades, the sun's greatest mysteries — how the solar corona is heated to more than a million degrees Celsius, for example, and where the energy comes from to drive the solar wind and CMEs ...

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, kicked off in 2024, allowing an unusually high number of powerful X-class flares to explode from our home star. (Image credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL) ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter captured the sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator, enough to directly see the sun’s south pole. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team ...