The Sun doesn’t just fuel almost all life on Earth. It’s also our astrophysical laboratory, the only star close enough to observe in sufficient detail. This enormous ball of hydrogen and helium is ...

The Sun looks smooth and featureless to the naked eye, but at close range its surface is a churning sea of magnetized plasma.

NEW YORK — Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It’s dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye ...

Sun vortices seen by the world's largest solar telescope confirm an old prediction and may explain how the star's magnetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of the sun showing swirling formations of fire on its surface. A new visualization from the European Space Agency ...

The highest-resolution imagery of the Sun's surface ever taken reveals dizzying currents, and clues about our star's magnetic fields.

The sun's surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed ...

A dark sky suddenly lights up with a brilliant flash, illuminating the clouds for just an instant. It may look like a burst ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface (photosphere) ever captured, taken at 416 nanometers by the Inouye Solar ...

Astronomers have obtained the highest-resolution images to date of our sun's visible surface, observing swirling, vortex-like ...

They say beauty is only skin deep, and apparently so is the Sun’s magnetic field, according to a recent study. The Sun’s magnetic field is shallow, suggests new research, which used computer ...