Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more ...

Stars like our sun may eject extremely violent flares about once per century, which is “surprisingly” often, scientists say in a new study. “We were very surprised that sun-like stars are prone to ...

ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

This morning a very strong solar flare occurred. This flare will enhance the chances of northern lights and could cause communications disruptions. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has detected the ...

The Kepler data provided researchers with evidence of 220,000 years of stellar activity. Researchers identified 2,889 superflares on 2,527 of the 56,450 observed stars, meaning that on average, one ...

The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A massive solar particle storm during the last Ice Age was ...

The sun may produce extremely powerful bursts of radiation more frequently than we thought. Such “superflares” seem to happen as often as once a century, according to a survey of sun-like stars, and ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than previously thought. The research provides an unexpected solution to a 50-year-old ...

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