At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named ...

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...

Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's surface. They occur when intense magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly ...

The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

The sun unleashed a strong X2 solar flare on Sunday; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an alert stating radio blackouts can occur, indicating a slight chance for ...

India’s first dedicated space based solar mission, Aditya-L1, has made a ground-breaking observation as one of its scientific payloads has captured the first-ever image of a solar flare ...