Solar tornado near the sun's North Pole. This thing was twisting and growing for 3 days. Unlike tornadoes on Earth, tornadoes on the sun are controlled by magnetism.

Here's something you don't see every day: a tornado on the surface of the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory posted this stunning video, which shows the sun's plasma sliding and spinning ...

Super-tornadoes on the sun are thousands of miles across, some the size of the United States, and may be heating the solar atmosphere 300 times hotter than the surface. Skip to main content.

A NASA spacecraft has captured spectacular video of an enormous plasma "tornado" spinning off the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory probe, or SDO, watched the dark-hued twister churn and ...

An enormous solar tornado around 14 times as large as the Earth was spotted on the sun over the weekend. The huge column of solar plasma was spotted by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on ...

Yes, there are "tornadoes" on the sun, and now astronomers think they don't spin like their Earth-based cousins do, according to new research. Giant solar tornadoes — also known as prominences ...

Tornado-like plasma twisters dance across the sun in this still from a NASA video recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory during a 30-hour period between Feb. 7 and 8 in 2012.

A massive solar tornado, big enough to swallow the Earth, was observed twirling across the surface of the "quiet" sun last week. Using a telescope made from second hand parts, including part of an ...

For years, scientists have struggled to determine why the sun's atmosphere is more than 300 times hotter than its surface. But a new study has found a possible answer: giant super-tornadoes on the ...