The Sun isn't done throwing its mid-cycle fit. Beginning Tuesday, it hurled a pair of massive solar flares at Earth, triggering temporary radio blackouts and heightening the likelihood that colorful ...

Talk about a heated situation. The sun unleashed two colossal solar flares within seven hours of each other this week, triggering radio blackouts across parts of Earth. Solar flares are strong, ...

Forecasters expect a coronal mass ejection and a powerful X-class solar flare could impact the Earth starting on Thursday.

Fireworks may not be the only dazzling thing you see this week. Fireworks may not be the only dazzling thing you see this ...

Space scientists have announced that the Sun has fired four massive solar flares. The outbursts were captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, which monitors our star’s activity for ...

The northern lights may be visible along a stretch of northern states Tuesday night, and a recent solar flare could heavily disrupt radio frequencies this week, according to a National Oceanic and ...

What processes are responsible for heating solar flares and what dangers do they pose to Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an ...

A record-breakingly sharp image of a solar flare allowed astronomers to get a closer look into the Sun's mysterious coronal loops. Reading time 2 minutes It took astronomers a little over a year to ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to new research. Reading time 2 minutes Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of ...