AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph an plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun's atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are ...

"We were excited by recent discoveries that a process called magnetic reconnection heats ions 6.5 times as much as electrons, ...

The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter ...

New research from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found that solar flare particles can reach more than 100 million ...

For decades, physicists have known that flare plasma gets incredibly hot, but exactly how different particles heat up has ...

Solar flares can be many times the size of Earth and can damage things like satellites. A new study suggests that eruptions from the sun can be even hotter than researchers thought.

This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, who found that the positively charged ions ...

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The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

The images, captured with the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal arcs of hot gas just 10 to 30 miles wide ...

Most places on Earth have seasons because our planet is on a tilt as it orbits the sun. But our star also has its own version ...