Imagine standing on a snowy mountain ridge. A single fracture forms in the ice crust, or a small patch of heavy snow shifts just an inch. That tiny movement destabilizes the snowpack below, which ...

Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

Aurora alert! The colossal solar storm could impact and trigger impressive northern lights.

Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

TRAPPIST-1 looks small and calm from Earth. Up close, it is anything but. The cool red star about 40 light-years away erupts with bursts of energy many times each day, sending radiation racing across ...

The world's largest solar telescope just captured the highest-resolution images of a solar flare to date — and they're spectacular. Researchers trained the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...

The forecasting of solar flares is a rapidly evolving field that combines observational solar physics with the latest developments in machine learning and statistical modelling. Solar flares are ...

In February 2022, SpaceX launched a group of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. Soon after launch, many of them began ...