The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years ...

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 ...

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, ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

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

ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms, revealing hidden processes that could protect satellites and advance ...

Remember: viewing the sun can be dangerous without the right equipment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astrophotographer Mark ...

The sun's outer atmosphere — the corona — has long intrigued scientists due to its extreme temperatures, violent eruptions and towering prominences — vast filaments of plasma extending out from the ...

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 reactor achieved plasma densities 1.65x beyond theoretical limits, solving fusion's 70-year puzzle and bringing ...