A key to understanding the dynamics of the sun and what causes the great solar explosions there relies on deciphering how material, heat and energy swirl across the sun’s surface and rise into the ...

The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the bottom floor of the machinery ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light on the Sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA’s ...

It rains on the Sun, the gigantic thermonuclear orb that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion. This rain is made of superheated plasma, and researchers might have discovered its ...

The NSF inouye solar telescope observes its first x-class solar flare and reveals the smallest coronal loops ever imaged MAUI, HI - AUGUST 25, 2025 — The highest-resolution images of a solar flare ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to new research. Reading time 2 minutes Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of ...

Imagine standing on a snowy mountain ridge. A single fracture forms in the ice crust, or a small patch of heavy snow shifts ...

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 ...

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the sun’s surface, sometimes followed by a bubble of magnetized plasma particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME). If they happen to spray out in Earth’s ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Solar flares are a great reminder of our sun’s truly immense ...

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, ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of coronal loops above an active region on the sun in mid-January 2012. The image was taken in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet ...