But the Sun doesn't really end there. 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 ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, the jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

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 ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun—can shoot out hazardous levels of energy strong enough to reach Earth’s atmosphere. Predicting solar flares, ...

This high-resolution image shows the Sun in ultraviolet light, revealing the Sun’s upper atmosphere, ... [+] the corona. Just published after months in transit and being post-processed ...

This high-res processed image of the April 8 eclipse shows the Sun’s corona, its outermost ... [+] atmosphere, in artificial colors that indicate the polarization or orientation of the light.

The Earth's atmosphere has strengthened its ability to remove air pollutants, including the potent climate-warming gas ...