People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It is an understandable question, especially for children, because the Sun ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

If you were to take a random blob of gas and heat it to solar temperatures (roughly 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit [5,500 degrees Celsius] at the surface or over 27 million F [15 million C] in the core), ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

A hot mystery on the sun may be close to being solved. For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why the sun's outer atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, despite being farther ...

The Sun is subtly changing in ways we have not previously fully understood, according to new research. Astronomers looked at data on the Sun taken over the course of more than 40 years and found that ...

The Sun in ultraviolet, as seen by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, during two periods: one the recent solar minimum in around 2019, and the solar maximum that preceded it, when the Sun was much ...

Discover fascinating insights into the distance, age, and mysteries surrounding our favorite star. From the Sun's unbelievable speed to the jaw-dropping phenomenon of space burps, these mind-bending ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the Sun.