Our planet was rocked by some of the worst geomagnetic storms in more than 20 years. Triggered by a slew of solar flares, the ...

The sun erupted with an X1.9-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the blast in multiple wavelengths.

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Scientists have long studied the sun, our solar system’s life-giving star, trying to understand its behavior, solar flares, ...

A mesmerising side-view video of a massive solar flare goes viral with eerie crackling sounds from real Nasa data.

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

The sun typically goes through regular cycles of increased and decreased activity, but in recent years, it hasn't been ...

Today's solar flare forecasting is pretty straightforward. Earth has several instruments pointed at the sun that monitor it, and when a solar flare erupts, NOAA predicts whether it'll hit Earth and ...

With the Sun still in an active phase there could be more spectacular Northern light displays in the year ahead.

NASA captured stunning images of a mid-level solar flare on Sunday, August 24th. The flare was classified as an M5, 10 times less powerful than the most intense flares known as X-class, and erupted on ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted the X1.1-class solar flare that erupted from the sun at 11:13 p.m. EST on March 4 (0413 GMT March 5). This series of photographs of the 2012 Venus transit was ...