NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is constantly observing the sun's activity, captured video of the sun emitting a significant solar flare on Dec. 19, 2014. Photo: YouTube/NASA Goddard ...

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the sun’s surface, sometimes followed by a bubble of magnetized plasma particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME). If they happen to spray out in ...

India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured one of our star's fiery outbursts in new detail. Solar flares occur in regions where the sun's magnetic fields become tangled ...