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 ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

In May 2024, the largest solar flare since 2017 was detected, ranking at an X-8.7 magnitude. Then in 2025, a flare May 13 was classified as an X-1.2 , and another the next day was listed as an X-2.7.

Sun has blasted an X flare towards Earth once again. The eruption reached us and disrupted communications systems. Sunspot region 4114 released the X flare, the most powerful solar flare, on Tuesday ...

Midsummer Night's Eve and the summer solstice may see aurora close to the U.S. Canada border after a geomagnetic storm in the wake of an X-class solar flare ...