The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 is a marvel of engineering. Two spacecraft fly in formation to observe the Sun. Well, not exactly the Sun, but its atmosphere: the corona. The two spacecraft get ...

Sun Region 4366 has produced dozens of solar flares since Jan. 30, "putting on quite a show," says Slooh President and ...

Proba-3 took an image of the Sun's inner corona every five minutes during an active period in September last year.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A large solar prominence (bottom right) bursts from the sun while a plasma tornado (top right) ...

Using artificial solar eclipses, the ESA probes Proba-3 are researching the corona of our home star. Now there is an impressive time-lapse.

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. But ...