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It’s tornado season on the Sun. At least, that’s what it looks like according to a new video released by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

A NASA telescope has identified three distant planets that have close compositions to Earth and are the most likely candidates to host life.

The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that its Herschel space telescope has found striking similarities in the composition of the outer layers in one of the nearest stars to Earth, Alpha Centauri A and that of our own Sun.

NASA's SDO spacecraft is one of space observatories watching the Sun constantly for solar storms and other solar atmospheric activities. SDO captures HD images of the Sun with pixel resolution superior to the latest Ultra-HD TV.

NASA captured on camera a powerful double prominence solar eruption of super-hot plasma on Friday, November 16. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) offers this view via a high-definition video of the "double prominence" eruption.

Knoxville - Scientists announced on Sunday they have found small particles of water on the earth's moon that come from an unusual source; the sun.

Greenbelt - Crack that whip, a sun whip for that matter. Over the weekend, as our moon gave us a rare scene that won't happen again until 2015, scientists also caught the sun on video unleashing a long filament, akin to a sun whip.

The sun sure has been heating up things around these and other parts lately. The Lower-48 hasn’t seen this much sun in at least a generation. Here in Texas, too much sun and too little rain teamed up in 2011 to give us the worst drought in history.

The sky may appear to be extra shimmery this weekend, because of a solar storm that's on its way. Due to hit Earth's magnetic field on Saturday, experts say the storm started on Thursday when the sun unleashed a massive flare.

An event not to happen again until 2117 had astronomers and amateur stargazers enthralled, as they gathered to watch the rare phenomenon.