Every two seconds, the camera on board Solar Orbiter is able to freeze the corona on another frame, and in this rare data set, it has captured the early, quiet failures that can build into a major ...

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets ...

A NOAA forecast has Northern Lights visible in northern U.S. states overnight on Monday, Jan. 19 through Tuesday, Jan. 20, as ...

A powerful flare unleashed a severe solar storm that caused auroras and GPS disruptions on Earth.

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

A rare solar storm, the strongest in over 20 years, disrupted signals and lit skies with vivid auroras worldwide, raising ...

New SwRI-led research connects circular flare ribbons, as observed with by Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope during the M4.7-class solar flare on May 3, 2023, with energy released by repeated bursts of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trio of solar flares, similar to the one pictured from 2012, erupted from the sun this week, disrupting communications on Earth.

Nov. 5 (UPI) --A moderate solar flare might affect radio communications on Earth Wednesday after a pair of powerful solar flares disrupted radio communications in sunlit areas of the globe this week, ...