'The flares in the worst-case scenarios can affect other technical apparatus such as satellites, power grid outputs and GPS.' ...

A solar eruption has blown a massive hole in the sun's atmosphere, causing temporary radio blackouts and possibly triggering a northern lights display tomorrow. Scientists recorded an M5.7-class solar ...

A Cosmic solar flare erupted on May 10, triggering radio blackouts and a CME. It may spark possible northern lights on Earth ...

Beautiful yet dangerous solar flares that erupt from the sun could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say. That's more than six times hotter than solar physicists previously ...

A powerful M5.7 solar flare from sunspot AR4436 tore a huge cavity in the Sun's atmosphere and launched a coronal mass ...

Two days ago, the sun erupted in a frenzy of activity and launched a couple of solar flares straight towards the earth. They should be arriving any moment, so keep your eye on the northern sky – it’s ...

America’s current plans for human space exploration seem horribly slow, considering we won’t leave Earth’s orbit until 2025 and won’t reach Mars until 2035. Worse than that, solar radiation spikes ...

Earthquakes are well understood, but very hard to predict. Instead of looking at tectonic pressure or fracking, researchers in Japan have postulated a new source that could be triggering quakes: solar ...

Astrophotographer Dale Mayotte took this photo of sunspot AR 1520 in Clinton Township, MI, on July 11, 2012. Astrophotographer Dale Mayotte took this photo of sunspot AR 1520 in Clinton Township, MI, ...