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 ...

Large amounts of matter are needed to create and sustain the massive plasma structures in the solar corona. New calculations reveal how this is ...

Solar prominences, huge arcs of plasma hovering above the Sun, are getting fresh attention from scientists studying space ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. LAKE CARMI, VERMONT - APRIL 08: The moon eclipses the sun ...

The study may help predict dangerous solar storms and protect satellites and power grids.

The total solar eclipse was so eventful that you may have missed a few hidden gems. While everyone was looking for the diamond ring, other strange phenomena took place. Photos show the weird shadows, ...

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 ...

An elongated solar prominence rose up above the sun’s surface and slowly unraveled on Feb. 3, 2016, as seen in this video by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. Prominences, also known as ...

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 ...

At more than one million degrees, the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, is incredibly hot. However, not everywhere. Time and again, huge structures of significantly cooler solar plasma - about 10,000 ...