A New Mexico State University (NMSU) astronomy Ph.D. student, who was leading a data cataloging project, findings link ...

After a calm week, the sun erupted again. A powerful M5.1 solar flare burst from an emerging sunspot region, shaking the stillness of space weather and igniting new forecasts of heightened activity.

The Sun has just unleashed an M5-class solar flare, a powerful burst of radiation that signals a clear uptick in solar activity as the current cycle heads toward its peak. While this event is not the ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

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

A new solar storm is approaching. In 2025 there were several, but they did not have serious consequences. Now, the US ...

Researchers have identified a newly recognized type of extremely energetic particles located in the Sun’s upper atmosphere, revealing a phenomenon that had not been detected before. Solar scientists r ...

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

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 ...