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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dazzling red features, witnessed by millions during totality, were anticipated as a result of the Sun nearing its solar maximum phase. Reading time 2 minutes We were hoping for something like this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...