Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

Clouds break minutes before the 2017 total solar eclipse in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Credit: Pete Marovich / Getty Images In 2024, a rare total solar eclipse will pass over the U.S., Canada, and ...

A solar flare burst from the sun toward Earth has prompted NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a Geomagnetic Storm Watch until Dec. 11. The solar flare erupted from the sun on Monday and ...

Physicists have long known that the Sun’s magnetic fields make its corona much hotter than the surface of the star itself. But how – and why – those fields transport and deposit their energy is still ...

This solar prominence may look like it's preparing for a coronal mass ejection, but at the last instant, the flare peters out, sliding back towards the Sun instead of being accelerated out at high ...

The dazzling northern lights could light up the skies as far south as the northern United States after the detection of 17 solar eruptions blasting from a single sunspot, two of which are headed ...