But when you look closely at the eruption, it appears that much of the solar material in the vast plasma plume didn't manage ...

People in the northernmost states may have a chance to see auroras glowing in the northern sky tonight.

"In one of them, there is a large triangular blob of plasma ejected by the sun, still faintly connected via plasma that follows magnetic field lines," Johnston said. "In the other there is an ...

Earlier this month, another geomagnetic blast unleashed lashes of purple aurora australis across the sky as far north as ...

The sun erupted with an X-class solar flare on Halloween, and solar activity is expected to remain high through Nov. 3.

Deadly blaze. An intense, fast-moving wildfire that tore through Chile’s Valparaíso region in early February has destroyed 98% of the country’s national botanical garden in the coastal resort ...

There is a profound mystery in our sun. While the sun's surface temperature ... a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has made a ...

When plasma falls to the surface it results in a dazzling display known as coronal rain (03:37) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Partners Terms of ...

Before dawn the next day enormous auroral displays of red, green, and purple illuminated the ... Neither solid, liquid, nor gas, the sun is made up of plasma, the “fourth state of matter ...

Stellar-mass and supermassive black hole coronas have some similarities, and this is great news for black hole physicists.

A stunning solar "waterfall" has been spotted on the surface of the sun. The picture, taken by astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau on March 9, shows a wall of plasma being shot "some ...

Some of these flares can be accompanied by coronal mass ejections, or clouds of plasma and charged particles, that emerge from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the corona. These ejections can ...