Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We are currently midway through Solar Cycle 25, the 25th solar cycle since the naming convention began back with Solar Cycle 1 in ...

Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets that energy explode in a solar flare has been stubbornly elusive. Now, a new ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...