The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

Now the cell is ready for the sun. As sunlight hits the cell, its photons begin "knocking loose" electrons in both silicon layers. These newly freed electrons dart around each layer but are ...

Once the core starts to become unstable, the outer layers of the Sun will expand. That expansion will eventually swallow up Mercury and Venus. Additionally, rough solar winds from the Sun will ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

Concurrently, it's ejecting potent layers of radiation, known as the solar wind, in our direction. Scientists from NOAA ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

“If you want to understand the Sun in its entirety, it is essential to look into all its layers simultaneously and with high resolution,” said Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki, MPS Director and PHI ...