As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that were reddish, pink and orange in hue — along the periphery of the moon ...

Cloud spotting seems to be growing in popularity as a hobby here on Earth. Now scientists studying the solar atmosphere are building their own collection of fascinating moving features that they’ve ...

A large solar prominence was captured by an astrophotographer that showed the sun spewing a giant cloud of plasma into space, according to a report published Monday. The video, captured by ...

A mesmerising side-view video of a massive solar flare goes viral with eerie crackling sounds from real Nasa data.

Did you see those red blotchy areas around the sun during Monday's total solar eclipse? Those are called solar prominences. Though they look like they could be made of fire, they are actually ...

Just like clouds on a calm day, solar prominences appear almost motionless. Attempt to draw them, however, and you’ll discover that both evolve at such a rate that you struggle to keep up. But with a ...

The sun is a literal hotbed of activity, giving off streams of plasma that can stretch out throughout the solar system and affect both people and satellites here on Earth in a phenomenon called space ...

Solar flames blaze in this detailed photo taken by an avid astrophotographer of Östersund, Sweden. "Incredibly beautiful to see how it hung freely over the solar disk," photographer Göran Strand wrote ...

Cloud spotting seems to be growing in popularity as a hobby here on Earth. Now scientists studying the solar atmosphere are building their own collection of fascinating moving features that they’ve ...

Researchers have cataloged around 200 oscillations of the solar prominences during the first half of 2014. Its development has been possible thanks to the GONG network of telescopes, of which one of ...