Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated that such events occurred only every 3000 to 6000 years. The result, from ...

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Forecasts suggest that peak solar activity will make aurora borealis displays even more intense than usual in 2025. Here are ...

A powerful X1.8 solar flare erupted on January 4, 2025, and was recorded at its peak—7:48 a.m. ET—by NOAA’s Solar Ultraviolet ...

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

The northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact ...

The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.

This Christmas Day, the skies may add to the festive cheer with a display of auroras, thanks to a blob of charged particles enroute to deliver a "glancing blow" to our planet following a powerful ...

On December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to “touch” the sun and emerge unscathed. The closest approach ever made by a human-made object to our nearest star saw the spacecraft come ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun ...

even this far away from the Sun. A solar flare is a burst of radiation: photons of all wavelengths, traveling at the speed of light. Solar flares are closely related to another solar phenomenon ...