The Sun holds onto its atmosphere, just like the Earth, and it's a whopper. "Once material leaves the corona at supersonic speeds, it becomes the solar wind, which forms a huge magnetic 'bubble ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Earth in the Sun's Atmosphere ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (October 1959), p. 64 doi:10.1038 ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Alongside observations taken by the Parker Solar Probe, which touched the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA will have plenty of data to dig into and try to understand. Hopefully, it all brings us more ...

Rather, it's an area of the ultra-hot outer layer of the sun's atmosphere (the corona) that's cooler in temperature than its surroundings, and therefore not glowing as bright. This one is very ...

Scientists observed brightness fluctuations in coronal loops—plasma structures in the Sun's atmosphere—that intensify hours before solar flares occur. This discovery, with a prediction ...