Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

The sun is not only our closest stellar neighbor, it's also the star we understand the most. As we've observed it over the ...

“It’s a milestone in solar physics,” said Ioannis Kontogiannis, a solar physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

While the Sun’s solar flares strongly correlate with sunspots, observations of more than 14,000 other stars show this is not generally the case.

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

Three strong Class M flares were recorded on the Sun. This was reported on December 29 on the website of the Laboratory of ...

Scientists tracked active solar region NOAA 13664 for 94 days, showing how persistent magnetic complexity drives flares and ...

Pocket AVIA/RAD-ALERT warns of solar flare neutrons and radiation and Terrestrial Gamma Bursts, both of which may pose hazard to passengers, crews, and avionics This pocket unit provides real-time ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent years. These beautiful light shows are caused by ...

What processes are responsible for heating solar flares and what dangers do they pose to Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an ...

Solar flares can be many times the size of Earth and can damage things like satellites. A new study suggests that eruptions from the sun can be even hotter than researchers thought. Solar flares are ...