Astrophotographer Mark Johnston captured breathtaking footage of a massive solar prominence, a towering cloud of plasma seemingly stalking the edge of the sun. The striking videos, shared with ...

The sun is always mesmerizing to watch, but Solar Orbiter captured a special treat on camera: a dark 'prominence' sticking out from the side of the sun. The dark-looking material is dense plasma ...

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 ...

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 ...

We were hoping for something like this to happen. For a brief moment Monday, the Sun waved to us from afar, telling us that it’s in the midst of a vibrant and dynamic phase of its 11-year cycle when ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — An eclipse mystery has been solved. Millions of viewers already got to experience the rare celestial event of the eclipse on Monday, but some more observant viewers could see red ...

Did you see those red blotchy areas around the sun during Monday's total solar eclipse? Those are called solar prominences. Though they look like they could be made of fire, they are actually ...

If you were in the path of totality on April 8 and gazed at the total solar eclipse, you will remember it for the rest of your life. Where you were, who you saw it with. The dip in temperature, the ...

A recent study has shed new light on the dynamic evolution of solar prominences. By integrating high-resolution observational data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) with spectral ...