The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon ... the latest missions, night sky and more!

The sun unleashed a strong X2 solar flare on Sunday; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an alert stating radio blackouts can occur, indicating a slight chance for ...

The first flare from 3936 is the one relevant to the solar storm warning, as it was associated with a CME that is coming straight at Earth, with the bulk expected to arrive today. The other two ...

Skywatchers in Hokkaido enjoyed the rare treat of seeing the Northern Lights following a series of large solar flares that made ... in the north-northeastern sky around 8 p.m. on May 11 as part ...

a colorful display of swirling lights in the night sky, are triggered by activity on the sun’s surface. These displays are the result of eruptions of electromagnetic radiation, or solar flares ...

"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 strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

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 ...