Latest about solar flares
Gigantic 'solar tornado' taller than 14 Earths raged for 3 days. What caused it?
A massive solar tornado recently towered over the sun's north pole for three days. The plasma twister was created by a rapidly rotating magnetic field.
Puzzle of the sun's mysterious 'heartbeat' signals finally solved
After studying an unusual solar eruption from 2017, researchers think they've pinpointed the likely origin of mysterious heartbeat-like signals emitted by the sun during solar flares.
Powerful X-class flare spat out a rare 'solar tsunami,' and you can hear it smashing into Earth
The sun recently spat out an X-class solar flare, one of the most powerful it can emit, which triggered a rare shockwave across the sun's surface and caused radio blackouts on Earth.
Mini sun with simulated gravity could help prepare us for deadly solar storms
The tiny sun used sound waves to simulate the sun's swirling mass of plasma
Incredible time-lapse photo captures the sun during an 8-year sunspot peak
A new time-lapse image shows two major sunspot groups moving across the surface of the sun in December 2022, when the number of solar splotches also skyrocketed to an eight-year high.
Unexpected solar flare smashes into Earth, causing radio blackouts in Australia and New Zealand
The flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection that missed Earth
Gigantic radiation storms have been pummeling Earth for at least 10,000 years and could strike again, tree ring analysis reveals
One of the events was 80 times more powerful than the strongest solar flare ever recorded.
What are solar flares?
High-energy eruptions of radiation from the sun's atmosphere can sometimes launch blobs of plasma toward Earth.
