Solar flares are classified based on their strength and fall into five designated categories: A, B, C, M and X. An X-class ...

In 1859, our star produced an extremely powerful solar flare, a burst of light radiation ... suggested that these giant bursts tend to occur many hundreds to thousands of years apart.

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on our sun.

A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals new insights into the triggering mechanisms of solar ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter recorded a giant plasma structure extending millions ... the formation as a pseudostreamer caused by a solar flare near the Sun’s north pole. The pla ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured on video by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, and could provide ...

There is a chance of powerful X-class solar flares that are capable of causing radio blackouts over the next three days, according to forecasters. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

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We already know the dangers of a massive asteroid hitting Earth, and NASA is working to combat that with D.A.R.T. What if that giant solar eruption was directed at the Earth? Could a solar flare ...

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare ... (or even higher for giant X flares). So a C5 is just about ...

Carbon-14 is produced when high-energy radiation, typically from a supernova explosion or giant solar flare, reacts with nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. Miyake tells Richard A.