Solar Flare

NASA detected a powerful X2.2 solar flare that erupted from the sun on Feb. 17, causing temporary blackouts in some parts of the world. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which constantly watches the ...

A team of scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia have turned to trees in an effort ...

Something is happening to the sun. One of the regions of the solar atmosphere currently exhibiting sunspots caught ...

A fast-growing giant sunspot that can emit solar flares has more than doubled in size in recent days ...

The sun produced a huge solar flare over the Easter holiday weekend, triggering radio blackouts over southeast Asia and ...

No wonder ancient cultures once worshipped the sun as a god. But while the Greeks once portrayed our ...

A large coronal mass ejection (CME) is expected to collide with the Earth’s magnetic field on Oct. 30 following ...

Earth is constantly bombarded by lethal radiation from the sun and outer space. Although we are fortunately shielded ...

Evidence of an unusually huge solar storm that battered the Earth, showering it in radioactive particles more than ...

A new study led by a team out of India has found that Earth’s protective magnetic field cracked ...

The sun can erupt with flares more energetic than 30 billion times the yield of all nuclear weapons ...

There's a lot of talk in alternative healing circles about aligning the body's energy with cosmic healing frequencies. ...

When a space hurricane was unleashed from the sun on January 7 2014, space-weather centres around the world ...

Two solar flares which erupted in our direction this week will arrive this weekend. The resulting solar storm ...

The angel seems to fly toward the sun. It’s trailing dress stretches a distance equivalent to 1,000 Earths, ...

Mysterious radio bursts from billions of light years away—one of many reasons to listen to the skies.

Superflares are powerful magnetic events much larger than solar flares. They erupt above giant starspots on a variety ...

As the sun approaches solar maximum in 2013, new light has been shed upon the effect of solar ...

The largest solar flare in four years was seen shot out from the sun and is currently in ...

“Solar tsunami” brings aurora borealis displays to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Norway, and other northern latitudes.