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 ...

Images of a total solar eclipse provide a unique scientific opportunity to view otherwise invisible parts of the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

In back to back days, the sun appeared to melt into the horizon due to a trippy optical illusion called the "Omega sun." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was zipping through space when a "hole" opened up in the sun's atmosphere near its south pole. It wasn't really a hole, per se. It was a coronal hole — a spot in the sun's ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have ...