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

Solar prominences are massive chunks of plasma floating above the Sun’s surface, which can cause dangerous solar eruptions.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have detailed how solar prominences—dense, cool plasma structures in the Sun’s corona—can remain suspended for weeks or months. Using ...

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At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...

This week we focus on the astounding and beautiful, with photos of a galaxy, a solar prominence, volcanic lightning, an asteroid moonlet, and the Earth from a mission to Mercury. The galaxy pictured ...

Did you see those red blotchy areas around the sun during Monday's total solar eclipse? Those are called solar prominences. Though they look like they could be made of fire, they are actually ...