New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph captured the blast that showed the sun's raw power in action.

Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent ...

A new giant sunspot, active region 4246, is now visible from Earth. Scientists believe another, even larger region is emerging. This solar activity could cause minor geomagnetic storms and disrupt ...

The sun is a dynamic part of our solar system, and it throws plasma and radiation out into space regularly. But not all of ...

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could affect your day-to-day life.

No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

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Beautiful yet dangerous solar flares that erupt from the sun could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say. That's more than six times hotter than solar physicists previously ...

After weeks of reduced activity, the sun erupted with three powerful flares on a single day. That could send solar flares toward Earth, impacting electronics and making it possible to view the ...

Solar flares can be many times the size of Earth and can damage things like satellites. A new study suggests that eruptions from the sun can be even hotter than researchers thought. Solar flares are ...

I/ATLAS stunned astronomers by surviving its close encounter with the Sun without flaring, fragmenting, or forming a tail — ...