The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was zipping through space when a "hole" opened up in the sun's atmosphere near its south pole. It wasn't really a hole, per se. It was a coronal hole — a spot in the sun's ...

A close up of a fiery red loop of plasma. Solar flares are enormous plumes of superheated plasma ejected by the sun. These massive plumes are so large, they could engulf our planet several times over.

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — The recent high–resolution images of miniature solar flares taken by a European Space Agency and NASA spacecraft, Solar Orbiter, captured the tiny eruptions for the first time. “This ...

Mini solar flares produced in the safety of a laboratory have revealed how the sun fires out energetic particles and X-rays at incredibly high speeds. The sun regularly spits out solar flares when ...