In a jaw-dropping moment of astronomical photography, Arizona-based astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured the ...

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 picture was taken in Traisen, Germany, on September 4, 2022. A stunning picture of a large solar flare clicked by a Turkish astrophotographer Mehmet Ergün, has won the Astronomy Photographer ...

The sudden flare-up of activity may also be a sign that experts grossly underestimated how busy Solar Cycle 25 — the current iteration of the sun’s magnetic rhythm — will be.

At 12:02 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, a massive X-class solar flare — the strongest kind — launched off the sun. It was the most intense of the sun’s current 11-year cycle, and the most ...

After causing the dazzling waves of aurora borealis this weekend, our Sun isn’t done yet: The strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle occurred Tuesday afternoon, according to the ...

Three solar flares occurred over a 24-hour period this week. While we may not see them with a naked eye, they can affect Earth. Here's how.

A new study has uncovered a connection between solar flares—sudden outbursts of radiation from stars—and short-term weather patterns on distant Earth-like planets.

We have seen a number of X-Class flares this year, but this is the strongest yet. In comparison, this X2.2 solar flare is nothing compared to the monster X9 that the Sun released in September of 2017.