Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO | edited by Stev ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

Bareh, A. and Chetia, B. (2025) Comprehensive Analysis of the Ionospheric Response to the 2015 Geomagnetic Storms over ...

STIX captured the location and size of X-rays emitted by solar flares, which are now represented with those blue circles, while the EUI images showcase the sun's outer atmosphere in yellow.

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 ...

The Sun regularly produces solar flares, which are energetic outbursts of electromagnetic radiation. Sometimes, these flares are accompanied by plasma in events known as coronal mass ejections. Both ...

In 2021, the telescope snapped images of 42 of the solar system’s biggest asteroids ... toll on astronomical observations already. A graph illustrating how dark skies are above Paranal compared ...

(Photo by Ross Harried/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Northern Lights forecast is looking up in the wake of a series of several large solar X-ray flares, with the nights of Saturday, Jan. 4 and ...

The new year began with a dramatic display from the sun, which unleashed a major solar flare early on Friday, January 3. The solar flare, classified as an X-class event with a strength of X1.2, ...