The European Space Agency last week released four stunning high-res images that show the sun in all its fiery glory.

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun," Rayl ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

The PHI instrument’s purpose is to map the brightness of the photosphere and measure the speed and direction of the sun’s magnetic fields. The visible light image of the photosphere showcases ...

This second image is what the surface, or photosphere, of the sun looks like when viewed by the Solar Orbiter in visible light, the same light we can see with our eyes. This layer of the sun has a ...

Mapped its magnetic field. Tracked how fast (and in which direction) material on the sun's surface moves. Ultraviolet light images of the sun’s outer, hotter atmosphere, the corona. This image ...