Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

Another display of the northern lights could be visible this weekend in several U.S. states following a severe solar storm.

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), ...

The effects of a coronal mass ejection—a bubble of plasma that bursts from the sun’s surface—will likely impact Earth’s ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, ...

The agency expects a minor or greater geomagnetic storm—a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field—on Saturday, which increases ...

Eclipse-watchers have plenty to look forward to in the next decade.

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

The space agency hosted a teleconference on Oct. 15 to formally announce that the sun was at the peak of its 11-year cycle, also known as the solar maximum, and to explain what people can expect ...

“In a world that is now so dependent on electricity and electronics, a similar event has the potential to cause widespread ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.