Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.

You don't have to venture too far afield to find the sun. There is a wide choice of destinations only three or four hours away. Malta, with its history dating back 7,000 years, makes a perfect choice.

The next supermoon is expected to reach its closest distance to Earth along its orbit. But even without clouds in the sky, it is expected to be difficult to see.

During this circuit, our planet is an average of 93 million miles away from the sun, a distance that takes light about eight minutes to traverse. Astronomers define this distance as one ...