A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...

Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. The ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...

Multiple M-class and X-class solar flares erupted within 24 hours as an active sunspot released intense radiation affecting ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A newly released video shows a giant gust of spiralling solar wind shooting out of the sun in ...

A massive solar filament erupted in dramatic fashion last night (May 12-13) around 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT), hurling a surge of material across the sun's northern hemisphere. Stretching nearly 600,000 ...

The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.

The eruption hurled a CME into space but Earth is not in the direct firing line. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Keep up to date ...

For many centuries, the Sun has been one of the most recognisable but least understood phenomena in our sky. While it has ...

A strong solar flare peaked just after 9 a.m. Tuesday. What does that mean?