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

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on Earth, ...

A New Mexico State University astronomer and her team can now predict space weather in the sweet spot between two extremes of ...

The sun is a dynamic part of our solar system, and it throws plasma and radiation out into space regularly. But not all of ...

A powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was ...

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at the ...

In May 2024, part of the Sun exploded .Author Dagomar Degroot Associate Professor of Environmental History, Georgetown ...

Research by university scientists suggests that solar flares may be far hotter than previously believed, offering new insights into the Sun’s behavior. The findings, recently published in the ...

I/ATLAS has just sailed through its closest point to the Sun with a surprising lack of massive flare-up and tail, just going ...