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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

which recently erupted in eight solar flares on December 14. Those flurries caused a massive blackout of radio signals over the Atlantic Ocean, which we could see again depending on how long the ...

On March 10, 1989, a huge solar flare caused a storm that surged the Quebec power grid, which was out of commission for eight long hours on a weekday morning, affecting about 6 million people.

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 ...

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 ...

Solar flares are violent outbursts of electromagnetic radiation that shoot from the sun when invisible magnetic field lines at the sun's surface get twisted up until they eventually snap. These ...