Of all the things to worry about, the explosion of our sun is perhaps one of the least pressing. The Earth has seen five massive extinction events, and it's therefore natural to wonder whether we, as ...

High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than ...

Earlier this year, Earth experienced two geomagnetic storms caused by outbursts of radiation from the Sun, which had an impact on satellites in space and communication systems on the ground. As it ...