Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

Here’s how it works. The sun has once again unleashed a powerful solar flare, continuing its streak of intense activity. On April 1, at 2:46 a.m. EDT (0646 GMT), an M5.6-class flare erupted from ...

The Sun seems unchanging, but solar flares, prominences, and sunspots often pop up and disappear. Safely observing the Sun can be both fun and rewarding. Observing, The Sun, Upcoming Events ...

This image, captured on December 6, 2010, shows a massive solar filament erupting from the Sun. Nearly a million km long, it was seen by STEREO in extreme ultraviolet light.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The observed flare started with a very massive ... observed that ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a solar prominence. The results ...

Some people wrongly assumed that these were solar flares exploding from the sun. Experts later revealed that these were solar prominences — plasma plumes that tower above the sun but do not ...