Sunspot AR3767 erupted with a X1.7-class solar flare, followed by an X1.1-class flare from sunspot AR3780. NASA's Solar ...

Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Dubbed the Carrington Event, the flare challenged perceptions of Earth's relationship with the sun, heavily impacting early ...

Unexpected solar activity caused Binar satellites to re-enter early, illustrating challenges of solar weather in low orbit.

Sunspots captured astronomers' interest, and with the expanding availability and quality of telescopes, were closely tracked until 1645. Despite huge interest in them, astronomers could find no ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

However, while planets and moons possess atmospheres, the sun's plasma "fluid" is magnetic. This is why you can think of ...

What is a Solar Flare? Solar flares are sudden energy bursts that occur on the surface of the Sun. These events are typically ...

Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...