It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion. This rain is made of superheated plasma, and researchers might have discovered its ...

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, ...

Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics points in a very different direction. Instead of snuffing out our star, ...

New Delhi: NASA’s latest mission, the first-ever “sounding rocket” to space, has brought scientists closer to decoding the sun’s solar flares, eruptions, geomagnetic storms and other space weather ...

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 ...