Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but ...

A 40-year study shows the Sun’s internal structure subtly shifts between quiet cycles, offering clues to future solar ...

A spacecraft from the European Space Agency has captured new video of the sun's surface, showing plasma swirling on the star's "otherworldly" surface, according to a news release from the organization ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...

The Sun's periods of rowdy activity may get all the glory, but even in its quieter times, our home star can subtly reshape ...

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 ...

Scientists have analyzed more than 40 years of astronomical data to uncover evidence that the sun's internal structure subtly ...

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 ...

Looking at the sun through a telescope can cause serious damage to your health and vision, so how exactly are we meant to get pictures of the Sun's surface if we can't even look at it? Well, that's ...

For the first time, a spacecraft has made contact with the sun. During a recent flyby, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe entered the sun’s atmosphere. “We have finally arrived,” Nicola Fox, director of NASA’s ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...