The back-to-back eruptions caused radio blackouts across two hemispheres as the active sunspots turn to face Earth.

Solar flares, the sudden bursts of radiation that erupt from the Sun’s atmosphere, have become a topic of intense scrutiny ...

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Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have warned the public of a solar burst that is expected to hit Earth on November 30. The Sun has been quite active, with ...

A massive comet known as 3I/ATLAS that was first discovered zooming across the solar system over the summer showed signs of ...

More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries. In a new study, a team of physicists led by the University of Iowa report the first detection of bursts of ...

An overwhelming solar burst from the Sun hit the Earth hard enough to change its entire magnetic field, researchers have found. Astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center detected an ...

An artist's concept of a massive solar burst, with Earth for scale. Illustration: NASA/GSFC/SDO Our Sun is a dynamic star, constantly bombarding our planet with charged particles that cause aurorae ...

The sun emitted another powerful solar flare Tuesday nearly one week after separate flares set in motion a severe solar storm that disrupted some technology and produced some mesmerizing northern ...

The sun is bursting with activity at a level that hasn't been seen in nearly a decade. In less than 24 hours, the sun fired off three X-class solar flares, the highest magnitude on the scale used to ...

The first pictures from the new Swedish solar telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands, are presented in an article in the prestigious science journal Nature from November 14. The images of the sun are ...