Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

The spacecraft's Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is responsible for studying the surface of the Sun, also known as the photosphere. It does that by snapping images as well as measuring ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released four new, stellar images of the sun, including the highest resolution views to date of its full, visible surface, called the photosphere.

At 8,000 pixels, they're the highest-resolution full views of the sun's visible surface to date and reveal spectacular detail. “If you want to understand the Sun in its entirety, it is essential ...

The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years, which ...

which is swooping to within 6.2 million kilometers of the Sun's surface, the closest we've ever been. But what if we wanted an even closer look? Our first stop gets pretty hot. At 7 million to 10 ...

Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...

NASA's mission to "touch" the sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the sun's surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

This is similar to how Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) disintegrated in 2011, which survived its journey a mere 87,000 miles above the sun's surface, but fell apart a few days later. Do you have a tip ...

124.5 x 64.8 x 5.4 cm. (49 x 25.5 x 2.1 in.) ...

A NASA spacecraft may have made history, flying closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe had been on course to fly around 6.1 million kilometres from the surface of the ...