The sun is slamming Earth with solar flares and high-speed eruptions of plasma. Rarer events are picking up too, like a solar polar vortex, holes on the sun, and a sun tornado. NASA footage shows the ...

A "vortex-like structure" inside the sun's atmosphere caused by a coronal mass ejection interacting with the stellar environment. Credit: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory The fastest spacecraft in our ...

Sometimes, videos of certain natural events leave us astonished. Whether it’s the oceans glowing in the night or the unusual colors of the sky, these rare yet beautiful moments prove just how powerful ...

NASA released timelapse footage of the sun over the past 10 years to celebrate their Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which has monitored the sun for over a decade, according to their YouTube account ...

Our medium-sized star is experiencing intense activity. Fortunately, this solar activity is normal, but nevertheless spectacular. The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) — which has been in space ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

For nearly five years, a Sun-observing probe has been making close approaches to the Sun, capturing close-up views of the star’s polar regions to collect clues about its magnetic activity, corona, and ...

Finally, a good excuse to stare at the Sun. NASA recently released a time-lapse video featuring its decade-long coverage of the Sun—and the result is just as gorgeously mind-boggling as you’d expect.

Your browser does not support the video element. From Earth, the sun may appear calm and quiet. But up close it's a turbulent nightmare. And it's only getting more ...