A hot mystery on the sun may be close to being solved. For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why the sun's outer atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, despite being farther ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfven waves in the Sun's corona - elusive magnetic waves that scientists have ...

Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that definition to heart, physicists harnessed the strange rules of microscopic physics and ...

The European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission utilizes two spacecraft to create an artificial solar eclipse, enabling observation of the Sun's corona, which is typically obscured by the Sun's brightness ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...

Scientists captured the highest-resolution images of the sun’s corona to date. The plasma is artificially colorized in the image, with darker pink colors corresponding to brighter light. Schmidt et al ...

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Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...

The Sun’s corona - the outer layer of its atmosphere - is mysteriously hotter than its surface, and scientists still don’t know why. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter are now venturing ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft — launched in February 2020 and taking the first-ever images of the sun at close range — has sent back one of the most detailed images of our star.

"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did it! This has opened the door to new dreams and challenges." When you ...