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

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 ...

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

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

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

On Tuesday, the sun launched its largest solar flare in seven years and the largest of the ongoing 11-year solar cycle. It marks the culmination of an excessively busy period for our closest star.

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 ...

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 ...

Satellites are being pushed out of their orbits by the sun as space weather is ... Earth where they likely vanished in balls of flame. An image of a solar flare erupting from the side of the ...

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 ...