Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Sunspot AR3234 erupted with several M-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

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

Research conducted by an international team of astronomers from Southwest Research Institute, Aryabhatta Research Institute ...

The northern lights glowed across much of the United States last night. Is the aurora borealis returning to Ohio tonight?

Earth is being hit by the strongest solar radiation storm in more than two decades, alongside a severe geomagnetic storm, ...