AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph an plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

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Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?

"We were excited by recent discoveries that a process called magnetic reconnection heats ions 6.5 times as much as electrons, ...

The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter ...

New research from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found that solar flare particles can reach more than 100 million ...

On September 4, 2025, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured an incredible image of the Sun displaying a mysterious ...

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on Earth, ...

For decades, physicists have known that flare plasma gets incredibly hot, but exactly how different particles heat up has ...

Scientists have discovered that solar flares can reach temperatures up to 108 million degrees Fahrenheit, six times hotter than previously thought.

Record-setting solar flare images show ultra-thin magnetic loops, a discovery that could sharpen predictions of space weather threats.