"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

Solar storms pose a rising threat to power grids, satellites, and communications. Experts call for urgent preventive measures ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

Aug. 5, 2024 — A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares ... is massive enough that gravity has forced it into a ... June 25, 2024 — Solar physicists ...

New study reveals the potential for advance warning of powerful solar flares from the Sun, providing crucial hours to protect ...

Unlike the quadruple solar flare in April, these flares were not sympathetic. Instead, a single hyperactive sunspot fired off the massive flares one by one in less than 24 hours. The successive ...

The most powerful solar flare seen in nearly twenty years and ... It erupted from the far side of the sun and was accompanied by a massive coronal mass ejection (CME), which is a burst of charged ...

Sudden changes in the configuration of a sunspot’s magnetic field, called a magnetic reconnection, can release a huge amount of energy, causing a solar flare. But scientists are still trying to ...