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

X1.9-rated solar flare erupted from sunspot 4341 on January 18, causing R-3 radio blackouts.

Aurora alert! The colossal solar storm could impact and trigger impressive northern lights.

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) links quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares to dynamic oscillations in magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon that can drive space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The same active region of the sun that produced stunning auroras that were visible as far south as Mexico earlier this week has ...

A trio of solar flares, similar to the one pictured from 2012, erupted from the sun this week, disrupting communications on Earth. File Photo courtesy of NASA Nov. 5 (UPI) --A moderate solar flare ...

Beautiful yet dangerous solar flares that erupt from the sun could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say. That's more than six times hotter than solar physicists previously ...

Scientists from the University of St Andrews have discovered that ions in solar flares can reach scorching temperatures more than 60 million degrees—6.5 times hotter than previously believed. This ...