Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena.

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

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 sun spit out the largest solar flare in more than a decade on Tuesday, though after a week of being pummeled by plasma, the Earth could be in the clear this time. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

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 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 ...

Solar flares measured around X1 — like the May 13 and 14 events — indicate strong flare intensity. An X10 flare is described as as a severe event, according to NOAA.

This X1.1-class solar flare, which was released from a sunspot named AR4046, marks the first X-class flare the sun has released since early February. "A strong solar flare (R3) occurred and peaked ...