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 ...

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 ...

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...

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Observations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred years. Could our sun create one soon? When you purchase through links on our ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted a powerful coronal flare (cme) from a star other than the Sun.

No big deal, folks. The sun keeps exploding, but everything’s probably fine. “Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of ...

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 ...