AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

The world's largest solar telescope just captured the highest-resolution images of a solar flare to date — and they're spectacular. Researchers trained the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...

The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been captured by the world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii.

"Sunspots 4114 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. Minutes lates, sunspot AR4115 "erupted in quick succession," according to Space Weather. Both flares were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics ...

Solar flares heat ions much more strongly than electrons. The finding offers a new explanation for spectral line broadening.

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28), just before the stellar eruption triggered a radio blackout across two ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun's atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are ...

Considered our solar system's largest explosive events, solar flares can sometimes be as strong as a billion hydrogen bombs. Those with enough energy output to rank as an X-class have the potential to ...