The sun is always mesmerizing to watch, but Solar Orbiter captured a special treat on camera: a dark 'prominence' sticking out from the side of the sun. The dark-looking material is dense plasma ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have created the most realistic simulations yet of solar prominences, revealing how magnetic fields and plasma flows sustain these ...

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 ...

Astrophotographer Mark Johnston captured breathtaking footage of a massive solar prominence, a towering cloud of plasma seemingly stalking the edge of the sun. The striking videos, shared with ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — An eclipse mystery has been solved. Millions of viewers already got to experience the rare celestial event of the eclipse on Monday, but some more observant viewers could see red ...

The highly anticipated solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, might offer some extra fireworks. It’s all thanks to a series of massive explosions that one solar physicist says could be visible during the ...

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images taken by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3. The European Space Agency's ...

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 ...