For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its surface. A new study led by Northumbria University physicist Richard ...

The discovery could explain how the corona's temperature greatly exceeds that of the Sun's surface, and identify a key driver ...

Scientists at the University of Hawai‘i have discovered why it “rains” on the Sun, revealing that changing elemental makeup drives the mysterious downpours of plasma. It rains on the Sun, and scientis ...