“It’s a milestone in solar physics,” said Ioannis Kontogiannis, a solar physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Researchers followed a single solar hotspot for 3 months as it unleashed nearly 1,000 flares, revealing insights about our Sun's fury.

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

A single patch on the Sun recently stayed hyperactive for 94 straight days, hurling flare after flare into space and setting ...

The sun is not only our closest stellar neighbor, it's also the star we understand the most. As we've observed it over the ...

The Sun fired a staggering X1.9-class solar flare at the turn of the month, triggering a sudden, widespread radio blackout across Australia and large parts of southeast Asia and it seems like another ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

Learn about the longest observation of an active solar region, a feat that could start a path to improved solar storm ...

The sun may be coming out of its slumber at long last. On Friday morning (May 29), our star fired off its strongest flare since October 2017, an eruption spotted by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics ...

Scientists using NASA’s Swift satellite have spotted a stellar flare on a nearby star so powerful that, had it been from our sun, it would have triggered a mass extinction on Earth. The flare was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A spot on the sun 10 times larger than Earth has been seen ...

The same active region of the sun that produced stunning auroras that were visible as far south as Mexico earlier this week has erupted again. On Friday the sun released a powerful, X4.0-class solar ...