SAN FRANCISCO — While scientists have made significant progress in deciphering the complex physics of the sun, they remain perplexed by the way energy and plasma move through its interface region, the ...

NASA launched a satellite Thursday evening from off the California coast to find out how the sun generates the kind of intense energy that produces heat measured in millions of degrees as it moves ...

Lying just above the sun's surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: Zones ...

NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar ...

(Nanowerk News) NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of a region of the sun that is now possible to observe in detail: the lowest layers ...

Robert Carvalho began his career at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., interning as a computer engineer in 1993. Since then, he has worked on a variety of projects, including helping ...

This still image from a NASA webcast shows a view inside the IRIS sun telescope mission operations center at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. [Read the full launch story] The ...

Lying just above the sun’s surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: Zones ...

This image shows technicians and engineers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California connecting the Pegasus XL rocket with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, solar observatory to the ...