A erupted with M1 and M6 class solar flares. Watch the fireworks in these views from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Earth is bracing for major disruptions to communications, GPS, and technology as a rare four-way solar storm is racing ...
This was announced on October 17 by the press service of the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of the IKI RAS."Since the ...
The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during ...
New findingspublished in The Astrophysical Journal Letterssuggest that solar flares—massive explosions of energy in the Sun’s atmosphere—may be up to 6.5 times hotter than scientists previously ...
After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could ...
The northern lights have a higher than usual chance of appearing for viewers in some northern states, according to the ...
Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...
Solar flares are intense bursts of light and particles from the sun. While they can pose hazards for things like satellites, these flares are also beautiful, dramatic and incredibly hot. NPR's Nell ...
A New Mexico State University astronomer and her team can now predict space weather in the sweet spot between two extremes of ...