NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage of the Sun shows incredible towering eruptions exploding into the darkness of space. It was ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has quietly rewritten one of fusion’s hardest rules, using subtle three ...

NEW YORK — A spacecraft from the European Space Agency has captured new video of the sun's surface, showing plasma swirling on the star's "otherworldly" surface, according to a news release from the ...

Geomagnetic storms may spark auroras in northern Michigan and Maine after a strange explosion on the surface of the sun. On July 21, a magnetic filament connected to sunspot AR3757 erupted, sending ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shirsh Lata Soni, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The Sun periodically ...

An astrophotographer has captured a jaw-dropping 236,000 mile-high wall of Sun plasma. Argentinan Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau, 51, snapped the amazing spectacle on Wednesday (17 July). Eduardo, of ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms, revealing hidden processes that could protect satellites and advance ...

China’s flagship fusion experiment has crossed a line that many physicists once treated as a hard stop, pushing plasma density beyond a limit that had constrained reactors for decades. By finding a ...

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 ...