Solar flares are nothing new to Earth and we have experienced quite a few this year, but this weekend the sun let out a coronal mass ejection which is something a bit different. On Saturday, the sun ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

A pair of massive solar eruptions, known as coronal mass ejections, was detected on December 16 and is currently on a direct collision course with Earth.

Earth is in the midst of a moderate solar storm - but will it be strong enough to cause technology disruptions? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction ...

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

A Chinese-German team of scientists have identified the magnetic structures in the solar corona where the fast solar wind originates. Using images and Doppler maps from the Solar Ultraviolet ...

In an achievement that defies conventional wisdom among astronomers, a trio of eclipse chasers has captured what experts confirm is the first documented observation of the solar corona during a ...

Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west ...

Many coronal loops — ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the Sun’s atmosphere — may actually be optical illusions, according to a new paper that challenges prevailing ...

Earth is expected to be hit by a moderate-strength geomagnetic storm on September 4 as solar wind escapes from a huge hole in the sun's atmosphere. On Thursday, the U.S. National Oceanic and ...