In NBC’s La Brea (streaming now on Peacock), a group of unsuspecting people are swept up in adventure when a sinkhole swallows part of Los Angeles. It happens sometimes, through processes which are ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured a coronal mass ejection erupt from the far side of the Sun.

The weather forecast on the sun: rainy with a chance of space fireballs. Astronomers have discovered a phenomenon that causes the sun to form enormous objects similar to meteors or "shooting stars" in ...

The Sun is now at the most active point in its roughly 11‑year solar cycle, and scientists say the current peak has arrived earlier and more forcefully than first expected. As activity climbs, ...

Some of the most spectacular features on the Sun are its coronal loops — incandescent structures of hot plasma that arc for thousands of miles above magnetically active regions of the Sun, forming ...

Earth is at the mercy of the Sun’s changing temperament. Solar storms are revving up, which makes a new exploration of the Sun’s activity more relevant than ever. In new research published Thursday in ...

The eye-catching structure appears dark due to hot glowing gas, or plasma, that is normally contained there traveling out into space, according to Spaceweather.com. The coronal hole was photographed ...

A pair of satellites just launched into space that may help scientists solve long–standing mysteries about the Sun's corona and how it ties in to space weather. Solar eclipses are a wonder to behold, ...

Coronal loops, well-defined hot strands of plasma that arch out into the sun’s atmosphere, are iconic to the sun’s imagery. But many of the supposed coronal loops we see might not be there at all.

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...

Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

Many coronal loops -- ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the sun's atmosphere -- may actually be optical illusions, according to a new paper that challenges ...