Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to ...

A powerful X-class solar flare erupted on June 19, disrupting radio signals and potentially setting the stage for geomagnetic ...

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took the image near the Sun on March 23, 2025, and it was announced on June 11, 2025.

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...

Sunspot region 4114 has unleashed its most powerful solar flare yet — an X1.9 class that erupted late June 19, triggering ...

Our sun is classified as a G2 medium-sized star. We believe it’s about four billion, 600 million years old, halfway through its lifetime. It burns four million tons of hydrogen every ...

Last week saw scientists celebrating a breakthrough in bowel cancer prevention. The study, by the University of Edinburgh and ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. The image shows a subset ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

New images are key to understanding solar magnetic storms and other space weather that can disrupt systems on Earth.

NASA astronaut and commander of the Crew-10 mission Anne McClain has captured stunning visuals of auroras from the International Space Station (ISS). Taking to X, she shared the video presenting "very ...