The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

By tracing solar flare gamma rays, scientists gain new insight into particle behavior that shapes space weather forecasts.

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

A patch of turmoil on the Sun can feel far away, until it reaches into your daily life. In 2024, one solar region became so ...

“It’s a milestone in solar physics,” said Ioannis Kontogiannis, a solar physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

The sun is not only our closest stellar neighbor, it's also the star we understand the most. As we've observed it over the ...

Considered our solar system's largest explosive events, solar flares can sometimes be as strong as a billion hydrogen bombs. Those with enough energy output to rank as an X-class have the potential to ...

Earthlings have reported spotting solar flares during Monday's total eclipse. The sun on Monday was expected to be at the height of its activity during its 11 year solar cycle also known as its "solar ...

There is a higher-than-usual chance of powerful X-class solar flares on Wednesday, thanks to several active sunspots kicking up a fuss on the sun's surface. September 27 is showing a 15 percent chance ...

This week the sun released three solar flares and NASA says they were big ones. These giant explosions from the sun happened over a 24-hour period between Wednesday evening, Feb. 21, to Thursday ...

Three top-tier X-class solar flares launched off the sun between Wednesday and Thursday. The first two occurred seven hours apart, coming in at X1.9 and X1.6 magnitude respectively. The third, the ...