A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at the ...

At 90 million miles away, a gigantic star, 109 times larger than the Earth, is spinning around, leading the entire solar system and all of its planets along with it. But the Sun has its own timetable, ...

Dignitaries formally inaugurate the beginning of FLARE operations. From left: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin; Hantao Ji, PPPL physicist and FLARE’s principal investigator; Brandon Thorne, director of ...

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on Earth, ...

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Scientists say this powerful surge in solar activity could set the stage for the northern lights to appear as early as Thursday, Feb. 5 Getty The sun unleashed multiple powerful X-class solar flares, ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

If you’re seeing social media posts about an X-class solar flare, here’s what you need to know now. A powerful X-class solar flare, the strongest category scientists track, erupted from the Sun on Jan ...