Scientists have long struggled to accurately predict solar flares, but a recent breakthrough using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has uncovered a promising new sign: flickering coronal loops. These ...

As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun's surface. These spectacular solar structures, known as coronal ...

It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could ... Scientists captured images showing the ...

On Oct. 3, 2024, an X9 magnitude solar flare — the most powerful of the current cycle — erupted from the sun, launching a CME directly at Earth. (Image credit: NASA/SDO) The effects of the ...

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the ...

An image of the sun produced by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, capturing a solar flare from the sun's western limb on Sept. 12, 2024. | Credit: NASA/SDO Shining loops of plasma on the surface ...

Researchers have made a potentially crucial breakthrough in solar science that could help predict solar flares with greater ...

And NASA doesn’t see these solar flares improving in the coming years. A sunspot captured by the Inouye Solar Telescope. Image source: NSO/AURA/NSF Every solar flare that erupts and every bit of ...

Now, using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, one team has identified flickering loops in the solar atmosphere (corona) that seem to signal when the sun is about to unleash a large flare.