NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a rare phenomenon on Tuesday, April 23: four enormous regions of the Sun exploding simultaneously. "Sunspots are areas where the magnetic field is ...

The alert was issued after an international satellite photographed a massive explosion on the surface of the Sun that sent a plume of fire 30 times longer than the diameter of Earth blasting into ...

NASA spied an explosion more than 90 million miles from home. The massive shimmering ball of plasma at the heart of our solar system (aka the sun) let loose a solar flare on Thursday, and NASA's ...

Our Sun isn’t quite as old as other stars out there. However, scientists are already trying to pinpoint exactly when the Sun will die. Of course, it isn’t as simple as throwing out a date.

No big deal, folks. The sun keeps exploding, but everything’s probably fine. “Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution ...

Last year, during the hybrid solar eclipse visible above Australia on April 20, Horálek and others captured a stunning image of a large solar storm exploding from the sun during totality.

All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! What is going to happen to the sun in the future? Will it explode? Will it burn out? Is it getting closer to the Earth? Will it drop like a ...

The Sun seems to be waking up again after one of ... However, the presence of a light bridge does not guarantee an imminent explosion; sometimes sunspots with light bridges simply break apart ...

Huge clouds of material erupting from the sun may share at least one feature ... a familiar pattern of instability on one flank of an exploding cloud of solar material. The pattern closely ...

The explosion contained three different types of ... but the former is a huge bubble made from the Sun’s magnetic field, while a jet is a narrow burst of solar material. Partial eruptions ...