The sun is busy these days. From sunspots and solar flares to coronal mass ejections and the aurora borealis, solar activity has been in the news recently. What's going on? The sun goes through 11 ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has provided scientists with an unprecedented look at a magnetic ...

Sunspot AR3184 erupted with an X1.9-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the fireworks. The ...

"We've been able to show, for the very first time, that the sun's flare pulsations and Earth's atmosphere were pulsing in ...

The sun emitted another strong solar flare on Tuesday – the largest flare in the solar cycle, according to air and space experts. NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, which watches the sun ...

We're at the beginning od a serous cycle of solar flares; read on to learn more about how these forces affect us physically and energetically. Shutterstock The sun has really been showing off its ...

This week the sun released three solar flares and NASA says they were big ones. These giant explosions from the sun happened over a 24-hour period between Wednesday evening, Feb. 21, to Thursday ...

The strongest solar flare since 2017 exploded on the sun late on Friday as a massive display of aurora took place on Earth. This latest solar flare came from a sunspot region called 3664 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly two decades Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth and created dazzling northern lights in unaccustomed ...

Was there really a solar flare explosion on the Sun during the total solar eclipse? Not really, but something really impressive was there. The recent total solar eclipse was arguably one of the ...