A wide gap in the sun’s magnetic field is blowing a river of charged particles straight at Earth this week, and the result is ...

A powerful M5.7 solar flare erupted from the sun on May 10, unleashing an impressive coronal mass ejection (CME) that could deliver Earth a glancing blow tonight and potentially spark northern lights ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solar flares are nothing new to Earth and we have experienced quite a few this year, but this weekend the sun let out a coronal ...

The sun has just released a powerful M5.7 solar flare, sending a stream of charged particles hurtling toward Earth’s atmosphere. This moderate to strong eruption originated from the active sunspot ...

Medieval records of the northern lights extending as far as Japan have led researchers to evidence for a powerful burst of ...

When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a ...

Fast solar winds originating from the sun can have direct impacts on Earth—disrupting systems like GPS, aviation, electrical grids, and satellite and radio communications. A new paper by New Mexico ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Many coronal loops — ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the Sun’s atmosphere — may actually be optical illusions, according to a new paper that challenges prevailing ...

Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the mysterious mechanism responsible for heating the outer part of the solar atmosphere, the corona, to million degree temperatures. “It has become ...

Solar flares are nothing new to Earth and we have experienced quite a few this year, but this weekend the sun let out a coronal mass ejection which is something a bit different. On Saturday, the sun ...