Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Schmidt et al./NJIT ...

Large amounts of matter are needed to create and sustain the massive plasma structures in the solar corona. New calculations ...

Solar prominences, huge arcs of plasma hovering above the Sun, are getting fresh attention from scientists studying space ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...

“In the Sun’s atmosphere, the magnetic field is the driving force. It also plays a decisive role in all processes that ...

A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures. Reading time 2 minutes The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—is the piping ...

The new computer simulations are based on a magnetic field structure that is often associated with prominences: the magnetic ...

At more than one million degrees, the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, is incredibly hot. However, not everywhere. Time and again, huge structures of ...

Prominences are filaments of cool plasma extending from the surface of the Sun that can persist for weeks. Scientists have gained valuable insights into how the material in these prominences are ...