Proba-3 took an image of the Sun's inner corona every five minutes during an active period in September last year.

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" footage of three solar prominences erupting from the sun's mysteriously hot ...

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images ...

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. The ...

These incredibly detailed images of the sun were captured by astrophotographer Mark Johnston from his backyard in Scottsdale, Arizona. It's no wonder astrophotographers like Johnston are turning their ...

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout the solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

There's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in one spectacular image. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena. The entire disc of the sun captured on ...

The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc. Solar prominences are large structures of ...