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

told Live Science. "These events are so massive they kinda smack you in the face," he said. However, we cannot see them all, ...

A Sunspot AR3873 erupted with an X1.8-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks. Footage ...

For starters, we can only properly see solar flares on the side of the sun facing Earth ... impact on Earth's environment," Shneider told Live Science. "Every new mission, observational point ...

Sunspot AR3234 blasted an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: NASA/SDO/Helio Viewer | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Mu ...

(Credit: Serenity Strull/ Getty Images) Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs, but our Sun is a notable exception ... may not have a day or night How solar flares spill out across the Solar ...

The captivating lights are the result of collisions between gas particles in our atmosphere and charged particles that are constantly being shot out from the sun's atmosphere ... The frequency of ...

Skywatchers in the UK and Ireland have already enjoyed impressive displays of the Northern Lights this year, thanks to the sun entering a phase of peak activity. This period of solar maximum is part ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...

As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun's surface. These spectacular solar structures, known as coronal ...