A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...

The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region.

As the sun reaches its solar maximum, a strong solar flare erupted on March 28, which may enhance the visibility of the ...

Stunning imagery from outer space shows the power of the Sun, with a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from the giant star’s surface, but space experts say there is no need ...

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 ...

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Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...

The spacecraft recorded the first-ever image of a solar flare ‘kernel.’ This rare observation was made in the lower solar atmosphere. The captured image shows the phenomenon in the photosphere ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research career." India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured ...

The sun unleashed a strong X1.1 solar flare on Friday, March 28, as scientists continue to monitor the possibilities of coronal mass ejections, which can ultimately lead to geomagnetic storms ...