Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A never before seen solar vortex has been observed circling the sun's north pole. A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A satellite image of the sun shows a looping filament of plasma breaking off of the sun and forming a vortex around the star's ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

From Earth, the sun just looks like a continuous ball of hot, but its activity actually varies wildly during an 11-year period called the “solar cycle.” The cycle begins at solar minimum, when things ...

In the latest Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) conference, held in Washington, some new solar technologies were displayed which offer a novel approach to harvesting the sun’s energy.