A new computer model simulates convection patterns in the deep interior of the Sun in unprecedented detail. The patterns, known as giant cells, play a critical role in solar variability ...

How does the Sun’s interior function and produce the energy needed to allow life to exist on the Earth? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of ...

Scientists have created an "MRI" of the Sun's interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface. The result upends our understanding of how ...

They exit the Sun less than 3 seconds after being generated. This cutaway showcases the various regions of the surface and interior of the Sun, including the core, which is where nuclear fusion ...

Bright points in sun's atmosphere mark patterns deep in its interior Date: April 17, 2014 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: Like a balloon bobbing along in the air while tied to a ...

Every time the Sun blasts energy and material from its surface, it imposes and equal and opposite force upon the Sun, which helps to slow the rotation of the Sun’s outermost layer.

Deep inside the Sun's interior, the fusion of lighter nuclei into heavier ones causes a tiny amount of mass to be lost, converted into energy via the famous E = mc2.

U.S. and German scientists say an "MRI" of the sun's interior plasma motions is yielding clues to how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface.

Granules speckle the visible surface of the sun. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Scientists have long known that the magnetic fields threading an ocean of boiling plasma inside the sun leave fingerprints ...

A study reveals that the sun is both flatter, yet strangely rounder, than previously thought. The sun's strange shape hints at solar mysteries inside the star.