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

The study of young stars like EK Draconis has offered fresh insights into the violent activity of our Sun in its youth. By ...

Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent ...

On the night of October 17–18, the Sun unleashed two moderate solar flares classified as M-class, according to the Russian ...

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

This was announced on October 17 by the press service of the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of the IKI RAS."Since the beginning of this week, that is, in a little more than four days, 87 solar flares ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of light and particles from the sun. While they can pose hazards for things like satellites, these flares are also beautiful, dramatic and incredibly hot. NPR's Nell ...

Beautiful yet dangerous solar flares that erupt from the sun could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say. That's more than six times hotter than solar physicists previously ...

NOAA recommends traveling to a high, north-facing vantage point away from light pollution between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., when ...