India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured one of our star's fiery outbursts in new detail. Solar flares occur in regions where the sun's magnetic fields become tangled, appearing ...

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High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...

India's space scientists are celebrating their "first significant results": their maiden solar-observation mission could help protect the Earth's power and communication systems from destructive solar ...

IMAP will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 on a mission to chart the very edge of the solar system — the heliosphere's boundary— where the Sun's influence yields to the interstellar medium.

Analysis of a century of solar images from an Indian observatory reveals that different features on the Sun’s chromosphere 1, the layer above the visible photosphere, all show the star’s uneven ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.