There's a lot we still don't know about the Sun. While missions like NASA's Parker Probe will help enlighten us, scientists continue to discover new things that are quite baffling. In fact, scientists ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Astronomers have discovered a bizarre, new high-frequency wave on the surface of the sun. ☀️ You love ...

For the first time, scientists have observed giant slow-moving waves of plasma on the surface of the sun that could help to explain the mystery behind the star's magnetic field. Looking at ten years ...

Waves may influence space weather, offer a source of predictability The same kind of large-scale planetary waves that meander through the atmosphere high above Earth’s surface may also exist on the ...

A new discovery of high-frequency-retrograde vorticity waves in the Sun defy all explanations. The discovery indicates that vortices on the surface of the Sun move at three times the speed as ...

An odd type of wave has been discovered that travels backwards through the plasma that makes up the sun. But of three possible mechanisms to explain these waves, none fits the data, so they remain a ...

Sound waves escaping the sun’s interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun’s atmosphere which appears as a ruby red “ring of fire” around the moon during a total ...

Researchers have discovered a new set of waves in the Sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel much faster than predicted by theory. The high-frequency retrograde (HFR) waves -- which move in the ...