When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A large solar prominence (bottom right) bursts from the sun while a plasma tornado (top right) ...

Two colossal plasma fountains tore away from the sun in a breathtaking double blast, one of the most impressive eruptions ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

An astonishing celestial event has been captured on camera, revealing a solar tornado and a massive plasma eruption unfolding on the Sun’s surface at the exact same moment. Romanian space scientist ...

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, officially arrived in 2024, triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful auroras. Here are 10 of our favorite solar outbursts this year. When you ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

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 ...

This time-lapse movie of a solar prominence shows how plasma “dances” and twists with the Sun’s magnetic field. This video was taken by the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory using ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...