NASA has issued a major geostorm alert after detecting intense solar activity that could impact Earth’s satellites, ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of the flare in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage courtesy: NAS ...

This unprecedented observation confirms energy transfer across different layers of the Sun's atmosphere, advancing the understanding of solar flares and spac... NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

New images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft are giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun’s volatile lower atmosphere and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind solar eruptions ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion ...

This image, captured on December 6, 2010, shows a massive solar filament erupting from the Sun. Nearly a million km long, it was seen by STEREO in extreme ultraviolet light.

This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the “mountains” and “valleys” formed at the edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, located in the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula.

(Relevance: In 2022, UPSC asked a question on the impact of solar flares. The increase in solar missions ... They will manoeuvre precisely in Earth’s orbit so that one satellite casts a shadow onto ...

Stunning imagery from outer space shows the power of the Sun, with a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from the giant star’s surface, but space experts say there is no need ...

NOAA projected Saturday night’s northern lights would have a Kp index of 3, a measure of the aurora’s strength on a scale of ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.