NASA will soon launch a one-of-a-kind instrument, called Arcstone, to improve the quality of data from Earth-viewing sensors ...

A new study has uncovered a connection between solar flares—sudden outbursts of radiation from stars—and short-term weather ...

A colossal hole in the Sun's atmosphere is gradually turning towards Earth, potentially triggering G1-class geomagnetic storms by late June.

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

After Northern Lights appeared as far south as Colorado, Live Science discusses how "cannibal" coronal mass ejections (CME) ...

A stunning breakthrough in solar physics reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, thanks to the NSF's ...

Proba-3 will create about 1,000 hours of images of the corona over its two-year mission — and anyone will be able to download the data. "We have an open data policy — the uncalibrated data will be ...

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to ...

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...

What does an artificial eclipse look like? One space agency's satellites recently accomplished this task as part of a mission ...

The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class flare — the ...

On Thursday night, June 19, most of Michigan is within the line of sight, so if the weather permits, it might be worth ...