A diagram showing the layers of the sun including the corona and the underlying photosphere (Image credit: NASA) ...

Specifically, the X2.7 flare—the strongest so far this year—took place while the sun was over the Middle East and interrupted high frequency radio signals in the area for around ten minutes ...

A number of photos taken by the Solar Orbiter in early March were joined together to produce the widest high-resolution view of the Sun yet. In fact a whopping 200 individual images, taken by the ...

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency released the first clear images of the sun’s south pole, which were captured in late March by its Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

“When the sun is at its minimum, you have a north pole and a south pole, each with its own magnetic polarity,” Anik De Groof, Solar Orbiter’s mission manager, tells the New York Times ...