Solar flares are a fascinating thing and have a profound effect on what astronomers refer to as "space weather." These events vary with the sun's 11-year solar cycle, releasing immense amounts of ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe returns the closest-ever images of the Sun, revealing intricate details of solar activity and ...

The Solar Orbiter mission has captured the highest-resolution views of the sun’s surface to date, showcasing massive sunspots related to increasing solar activity.

On August 2, 2027, a rare total solar eclipse, lasting over six minutes, will be visible across Europe, North Africa, and the ...

A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from ... The storm blasted out at 4:25 a.m. ET and registered as an R3-level event — strong enough to disrupt high-frequency radio signals and ...

A groundbreaking new mission may soon allow scientists to study the sun’s corona with unprecedented clarity. The Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission (MESOM), a proposal from a group of researchers ...

Solar flares are classified based on their strength and fall into five designated categories: A, B, C, M and X. An X-class solar flare is the most intense type of solar flare and can produce as muc… ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

The 2001 sunspot peak came only a few years before the famous 2003 Halloween storms, when an X45 solar flare and G5 geomagnetic storms were recorded and power outages occurred in Sweden.

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 ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots ...