The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 is a marvel of engineering. Two spacecraft fly in formation to observe the Sun. Well, not ...

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" footage of three solar prominences erupting from the sun's mysteriously hot ...

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. The ...

A new time-lapse reveals the Sun’s inner corona glowing a faint yellow, offering a rare look at the hottest layer of our star’s atmosphere. The footage was created using images from the ASPIICS ...

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage of the Sun shows incredible towering eruptions exploding into the darkness of space. It was ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...

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 ...

There's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in one spectacular image. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Launched in late 2024 from India, the dual-satellite formation-flying technology creates artificial solar eclipses in orbit, ...

Mark Johnston captured these images from his backyard in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. These ...