Such eruptions from the Sun can disrupt satellite operations, radio communications, and power grids on Earth if directed ...

An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms ...

A high-resolution image of the flare from the Inouye Solar Telescope, taken on August 8, 2024, at 20:12 UT. The image is about 4 Earth-diameters on each side. “This is the first time the Inouye Solar ...

The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during ...

This September, the US launched three new missions into space, all of which are designed to monitor the impacts of space weather. Space weather arises from solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

Sunspot AR3234 blasted an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

What processes are responsible for heating solar flares and what dangers do they pose to Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an ...

Scientists at the University of Hawai‘i have discovered why it “rains” on the Sun, revealing that changing elemental makeup ...

A New Mexico State University astronomer and her team can now predict space weather in the sweet spot between two extremes of ...

This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, who found that the positively charged ions in solar flares—one of the two key components of solar plasma—can be ...