An astonishing celestial event has been captured on camera, revealing a solar tornado and a massive plasma eruption unfolding ...

There's a giant solar tornado raging on the sun's surface, and a researcher captured it — plus a massive plasma eruption — in ...

Dr Mason says: “In the high Arctic, Greenland and Iceland, cloud cover is at least 80 per cent and, in many places, over 90 ...

Solar storms that fling magnetism across the solar system can knock out satellites, power grids, communication and navigation ...

Not only is it the world's most powerful solar telescope, it's also the largest. Built with about 150 tons of steel, it sits atop the 10,000-foot-high (3,048-meter) summit of the volcanic mountain.

The National Solar Observatory (NSO), which operates the telescope, said that the image was taken during technical testing and that the VTF is not yet even fully operational.

For context, this year alone, the federally funded National Solar Observatory (NSO) expects to spend about $30 million on the facility. "To put it bluntly," Keller said, "for DKIST, at $13 million ...

"AURA is addressing a security issue at the National Solar Observatory facility at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico and has decided to temporarily vacate the facility as a precautionary measure," Shari ...