Photography is basically all about light. Those are not my words but those of a number of master photographers. Which is perhaps why so much attention is paid ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the exact moment the International Space Station passed directly in front of our ...

An X1-class flare erupts from the right side of the sun in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Nov. 19, 2013. [Read the Full Story of the Solar Flare Here] A powerful X ...

NASA shared a photo from Mars that appears to show a rainbow on the red planet. But NASA said it's actually just the result of lens flare. "Rainbows aren't possible here," it added. See more ...

NASA captures image of powerful solar flare The flare detected recently was also classified as an X-1.2 magnitude, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012. The eruption extends about 160,000 miles out from the sun. This SDO image (AIA 193) shows an M9-class solar flare erupting on the ...