It rains on the Sun, and thanks to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), we finally know why. Unlike water that falls from the sky on Earth, solar rain happens in the ...

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, ...

Researchers from theUniversity of Hawai’i have cracked the mystery of solar rain that occurs in the Sun’s corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere, and involves blobs of plasma that fall back to ...

It might sound strange, but it really does rain on the Sun. Of course, it’s not like the rain we get on Earth. Instead of water droplets falling from clouds, this solar rain is made up of superheated ...