New research shows that solar flares are six times hotter than thought and calls for updated sun models that could improve ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph an plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

"We were excited by recent discoveries that a process called magnetic reconnection heats ions 6.5 times as much as electrons, ...

New research from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found that solar flare particles can reach more than 100 million degrees Fahrenheit, which is over six times hotter than previously thought.

The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter than scientists used to believe.

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have made a new discovery. They believe that tiny particles in solar flares—big ...

The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been captured by the world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii.

An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

For decades, physicists have known that flare plasma gets incredibly hot, but exactly how different particles heat up has ...

The images, captured with the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal arcs of hot gas just 10 to 30 miles wide ...

When a solar flare erupts, those high-energy particles rush toward Earth like crazy, and near-Earth satellites are like ...

Solar flares—intense releases of electromagnetic radiation into the sun’s atmosphere—could be more than six times hotter than ...