Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA videos reveal explosive events on the sun: a polar vortex of plasma, an X flare, and an eruption from the north pole Video ...

NASA scientists spotted a strange polar vortex near the Sun's northern pole. The vortex appears to be part of a huge filament of solar plasma that the space agency says broke away from the Sun's ...

A curious phenomenon where a massive filament of solar plasma broke off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex has scientists both puzzled and excited. The images of the ...

On February 2, material from the sun separated from the star and got sucked up into a polar vortex. The never-before-seen phenomenon was visible in a clip Tamitha Skov, a space weather physicist, ...

You’ve heard of the polar vortex, but how about a solar polar vortex? Scientists and the public alike are in awe over a bizarre video that emerged of a vaporous-looking eddy of solar plasma swirling ...