Colossal solar flare erupts from Earth-facing sunspot, sparking strong radio blackouts over Pacific Ocean (video)
The prolific flare factory doesn't look like stopping anytime soon.
Powerful solar flare erupts from sun triggering radio blackouts across North America (video)
The M-class flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection currently forecast to land Earth with a glancing blow on June 18.
NASA’s PUNCH delivers knockout views of colossal solar storms erupting from sun (video)
"These first images are astonishing, but the best is still yet to come."
Humanity takes its 1st look at the sun’s poles: ‘This is just the first step of Solar Orbiter’s stairway to heaven’ (images)
The Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first look at the south pole of the sun, revealing messy magnetic fields and particles being ejected at high speeds.
Powerful solar telescope unveils ultra-fine magnetic ‘curtains’ on the sun’s surface
The sharpest images ever captured of the sun reveal intricate magnetic structures dancing across its surface.
Scientists capture never-before-seen plasma streams and bizarre ‘raindrops’ in sharpest-ever view of sun’s outer atmosphere (video)
Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun's corona in astonishing clarity.
New 8K-resolution photos of the sun show off incredible details of raging sunspots
Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.
No, solar storms didn’t crash Spain’s internet — but here’s what they can do
'I think it is quite clear that space weather was not the cause of the dramatic power outage in Spain recently'
‘We don’t know how bad it could get’: Are we ready for the worst space weather?
Space weather forecasting doesn't yet command the same resources as Earth weather forecasting, even though the stakes are growing.
14,000 years ago, the most powerful solar storm ever recorded hit Earth. ‘This event establishes a new worst-case scenario’
Scientists have found evidence of the most powerful storm in history, which hit Earth in 14,300 years ago. It would cause mayhem in today's technology-dependent world.