A giant solar flare on our sun was powered by an avalanche of smaller magnetic disturbances, providing the clearest insight yet into how energy from our star is released in a torrent of high-energy ...

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

A massive solar filament erupted today (May 7), producing a stunning display that spanned the sun's eastern limb and reached deep into the solar disk. "The sun is doing just enough to show that it ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

Every two seconds, the camera on board Solar Orbiter is able to freeze the corona on another frame, and in this rare data set, it has captured the early, quiet failures that can build into a major ...

A couple of days ago, NASA’s solar dynamics observatory captured this spectacular video of a filament of gas arcing in the sun’s magnetic fields. This image shows what the event looked like in extreme ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge filament eruption in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

A plume of "dark plasma" is heading toward Earth after being burped out by the sun. This coronal mass ejection (CME) was flung out from a long magnetic filament on the sun's surface and is set to ...

A dark line snaked across the lower half of the sun on Feb.10, 2015, as seen in this image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. SDO shows colder material as dark and hotter material as ...