A NOAA GOES satellite's SUVI instrument captured a pair of solar prominences. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NOAA/SUVI ...

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 ...

NASA has captured a huge solar prominence bursting from the surface of the Sun. The prominence was recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite on October 25. It stretched out roughly 80 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

At first glance, this incredible close-up of roiling solar prominences on the Sun’s surface looks like footage captured by a Sun-observing spacecraft. In fact, they were shot from right here on Earth.

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 ...