Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

The space observatory shared a ride with the four small satellites that make up NASA’s PUNCH mission, which will study how the sun's outer atmosphere becomes solar wind. The two missions are designed ...

But our species has started to journey farther, into the cold abyss of space ... magnetic field directly on the sun is also rather messy, which can be seen in images of the sun's coronal loops.

See photos in our ... coronal hole on the sun. The giant dark spot is not an actual hole in the way you might be thinking. Rather, it's an area of the ultra-hot outer layer of the sun's atmosphere ...

"We expect we'll revolutionize how space weather is forecasted ... total solar eclipse to block the body of the sun so that we can see its outer atmosphere, the corona. The other three satellites ...

Learn all about the planets in the solar system and their order from the Sun ... of space? Tim Peake and Fran Scott explore what sound and light waves tell us about space. Can you make outer ...