When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The enhanced imaging capabilities of the coronal adaptive optics system facilitate the study of small-scale phenomena like ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time-lapses of the flares in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage c ...

The multimillion-dollar experiment that was years in the making comes as the federal government makes broad cuts to science ...

The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...

Forecasters of space weather keep an eye on the sun to stay ahead of eruptions of solar material that have the ability to shut down power grids on Earth, disrupt aircraft routes, global communications ...

Solar flares measured around X1 — like the May 13 and 14 events — indicate strong flare intensity. An X10 flare is described as as a severe event, according to NOAA.

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at ...