The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region.The ...

The Sun has thrown out a powerful solar flare – and there is probably more to come. Our star is currently at the “solar maximum”, the most active part of the 11-year cycle over which it becomes more ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. As we continue deeper into Solar Cycle 25, more solar flares are expected to erupt from ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now ...

The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range from A, B, C, M, and X with a zero to nine scale in ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research career." India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured ...

Images from ISRO’s Aditya-L1—India’s first mission to the Sun—reveal a solar flare ‘kernel’ in the lower layers of the atmosphere, according to an analysis. This provides new insights ...

India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured one of our star's fiery outbursts in new detail. Solar flares occur in regions where the sun's magnetic fields become tangled ...