F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic ...
Solar flares have an enormous impact on the wider Solar System. These sudden releases of energy can cause geomagnetic storms ...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms, revealing hidden processes that could protect satellites and advance ...
Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...
The sun sure has woken up this week, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare on Jan. 18 that hurled a colossal, fast-moving ...
Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small ...
Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...
A solar radiation storm marks the release of intense, rapidly-moving charged particles toward Earth and can impact space ...
Yesterday, sunspot 4341 unleashed an X-1.95 strength flare, accompanied by a large coronal mass ejection and so-called “flare ...
Geomagnetic conditions are starting to settle, but auroras are still highly likely in the northern tier of the United States ...
The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.