"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage of the Sun shows incredible towering eruptions exploding into the darkness of space. It was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" footage of three solar prominences erupting from the sun's mysteriously hot ...

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images ...

Geomagnetic storms may spark auroras in northern Michigan and Maine after a strange explosion on the surface of the sun. On July 21, a magnetic filament connected to sunspot AR3757 erupted, sending ...

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, ...

A plume of "dark plasma" is heading toward Earth after being burped out by the sun. This coronal mass ejection (CME) was flung out from a long magnetic filament on the sun's surface and is set to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shirsh Lata Soni, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The Sun periodically ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean ...

At the heart of nuclear fusion research is the tokamak, a sophisticated device designed to confine hot plasma using magnetic fields. The tokamak's toroidal shape acts as a "magnetic racetrack," ...