Cloud spotting seems to be growing in popularity as a hobby here on Earth. Now scientists studying the solar atmosphere are building their own collection of fascinating moving features that they’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that ...

During the total solar eclipse, skywatchers saw ruby-colored prominences sticking out of the moon's shadow. Here's the science of those red dots This article is part of a special report on the total ...

The dazzling red features, witnessed by millions during totality, were anticipated as a result of the Sun nearing its solar maximum phase. Reading time 2 minutes We were hoping for something like this ...

At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge structures of significantly cooler solar plasma—about 10,000 ...

Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have produced the most realistic simulations yet of solar prominences and how they form and evolve. These dramatic ...

At first glance, this incredible close-up of roiling solar prominences on the Sun’s surface looks like footage captured by a Sun-observing spacecraft. In fact, they were shot from right here on Earth.

Just like clouds on a calm day, solar prominences appear almost motionless. Attempt to draw them, however, and you’ll discover that both evolve at such a rate that you struggle to keep up. But with a ...

The total eclipse happened. I was lucky enough to be able to get to it and avoid the clouds, but stupid enough to spend much of the time during totality snapping photos instead of just gawking in ...