On Monday, he spotted long-lasting plasma loops, saying: “Our sun decided to kick off September with a bang. “At 10.20am Argentina time, something hidden behind the south-eastern limb ...

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

Deadly blaze. An intense, fast-moving wildfire that tore through Chile’s Valparaíso region in early February has destroyed 98% of the country’s national botanical garden in the coastal resort ...

Among its other discoveries, the Parker Solar Probe has also provided the first compelling evidence for the long-theorized but elusive dust-free zone around the sun, which is created by sunlight ...

When plasma falls to the surface it results in a dazzling display known as coronal rain 5 Record-Breaking Bird Migrations (02:56) Pesto the Enormous, Viral King Penguin Molts His Baby Feathers (01 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe became the nearest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the ...

Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field. According to NASA's Space Weather Database of ...

The northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact ...

By Katrina Miller Our sun is a violent place. Bursts of radiation snap off the solar surface with the strength of millions of volcanic eruptions. Hot plasma churns and spews, streaming particles ...