On Sept. 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption. A filament — a serpentine structure consisting of dense solar material and often ...

The sun has been rather quiet of late but has since roared back to life with a major X-class solar flare eruption, the most powerful class of solar flare. The intense solar flare originated from ...

A striking and unprecedented image of a solar eruption has been captured by NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft. It's the largest solar prominence ever observed in a single ...

Polymorphic light eruption (PMLE), or sun rash, is an immune reaction to UV rays that affects about 10%–20% of people in the ...

Because the Moon lacks both a substantial atmosphere and a global magnetic field, it is particularly vulnerable to solar ...

In a dramatic, multi-staged eruption, the sun has revealed new clues that could help scientists solve the long-standing mystery of what causes the sun's powerful and unpredictable eruptions.

CME escaping from the Sun at 11:36 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2023. A massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, was detected escaping from the Sun at 11:36 p.m. EDT on ...

Scientists at the University of Hawai‘i have discovered why it “rains” on the Sun, revealing that changing elemental makeup ...

Researchers have discovered the origins of a 200-year-old volcanic eruption that ejected so much sulfur into the atmosphere that it changed the climate and made the sun look blue. In 1831, the ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...