Sunspot AR3842 erupted with an X2-class solar flare In Oct. The same sunspot blasted X9 and X7 flares in the last week.

Sunspot AR3767 erupted with a X1.7-class solar flare, followed by an X1.1-class flare from sunspot AR3780. NASA's Solar ...

Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Dubbed the Carrington Event, the flare challenged perceptions of Earth's relationship with the sun, heavily impacting early ...

Sunspots captured astronomers' interest, and with the expanding availability and quality of telescopes, were closely tracked until 1645. Despite huge interest in them, astronomers could find no ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

What is a Solar Flare? Solar flares are sudden energy bursts that occur on the surface of the Sun. These events are typically ...

Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Using data from their flight, scientists will observe how quickly the magnetic reconnection changes. The Sun emitted a strong ...