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 ...

After a two-year gap, there will be two total solar eclipses within 12 months of each other, on Aug. 12, 2026, and Aug. 2, ...

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Discover why Northern Lights occasionally grace Northern Colorado with their presence and the science behind it.

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.

A European Space Agency spacecraft has captured the most detailed account ever of a solar flare igniting in real time, and it ...

An investigation by Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University and Scripps News reveals how the ...

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

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

The aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, often appears in regions like Alaska, northern Canada and the Arctic Circle. But on the night of Tuesday, Jan. 20, they lit up the skies ...

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 ...