Watch a huge solar filament erupt on May 12–13. Spanning 600,000 miles, the event will likely miss Earth, but scientists are keeping a close eye on it.

This was the Solar Orbiter mission’s first high-angle observation campaign of the sun, conducted at an angle of 15 degrees below the solar equator. Just a few days after snapping these images ...

The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar system, and it provides the light and heat that life on Earth depends on ...