Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter has observed a solar flare ignited by an avalanche of magnetic reconnections, showing how tiny ...

Some solar flares can result in coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – huge plumes of plasma blown off the sun's corona and into ...

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From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

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

The ESA's Solar Orbiter has discovered that solar flares act like avalanches, growing from weak disturbances into powerful ...

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 ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...

A massive X1.9 solar flare and coronal mass ejection lit up the northern skies with dazzling auroras captured by NASA.

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

“This is the longest continuous series of images ever created for a single active region: It’s a milestone in solar physics,” ...