Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

Researchers classify the flare as category X6.3 ranking it among the most energetic radiation bursts. On Earth, eruptions of this kind can affect the operation of satellites, power grids, and radio ...

In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. The biggest flare of the series, recorded at a M7.3, erupted from sunspot region AR3938 on Dec.

Entering Day 26 of the Covington Drive wildfire in Carolina Forest, residents are still seeing South Carolina Forestry ...

They detected two luminous flares from this event ... are astronomical phenomena that occur when a star passes close enough to a supermassive black hole and is pulled apart by the black hole's ...