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 ...

Researchers followed a single solar hotspot for 3 months as it unleashed nearly 1,000 flares, revealing insights about our Sun's fury.

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, ...

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 ...

Earth’s magnetic field was rattled by a solar outburst that arrived with almost no warning, lighting up skies and briefly reminding power grid operators and satellite controllers how vulnerable modern ...

With the Sun still in an active phase there could be more spectacular Northern light displays in the year ahead.

Scientists have long studied the sun, our solar system’s life-giving star, trying to understand its behavior, solar flares, ...

The sun put on quite the spooktacular show on Halloween, firing off an X2.0 solar flare. A giant white flare, like an X bursts from the center of a fiery surface, blazed with reds and oranges in a ...

Our planet might be hit by another massive solar flare Monday, following multiple northern lights sightings across the U.S. on Sunday night. There is a 30 percent chance of an X-class solar flare ...

The sun may be 93 million miles away, but that does not stop its solar activity from affecting the Earth's atmosphere, a new study from Queen's University Belfast as found. The Earth's atmosphere is ...

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 ...