A sun dog is caused by the light from the sun, refracting off of ice crystals in the sky. It produces a faint spectrum of ...

NASA’s SOHO Solar Observatory has spotted the ultra-bright tail of a comet in the sun's glare destined to be a naked-eye object in the next few days. Captured by the LASCO instrument on NASA's ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

This haunting photograph was taken by a local photographer amid poor air quality caused by several fires raging in SoCal.

The total solar eclipse a few weeks ago saw some stupendous photography—not least from ... from Texas through Maine captured images of the sun’s outer atmosphere, its corona, during the ...

The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning. The X-class solar flare peaked at an X1.2 at 6:40 a.m. EST (1140 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 3), releasing a blast of ...