The middle corona, which is about 650,000 miles (1 million kilometers) above the sun's surface, has been the least monitored region of the solar atmosphere, partly because there haven't been ...

Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.

When we think of Earth and its neighboring planets orbiting around our common host star, we picture the center of the Solar System as smack in the middle of the Sun. However, that's not entirely ...

Strong stated that the object was in fact the planet Venus, which is currently on the opposite side of the sun from the Earth. "Coronagraphs are designed to look at the very faint solar corona ...

Our Sun had a companion and there could be many undiscovered dwarf planets in the outer Solar System. That’s according to a new paper from scientists from Harvard University. Published today in ...