By tracing solar flare gamma rays, scientists gain new insight into particle behavior that shapes space weather forecasts.

“This is the longest continuous series of images ever created for a single active region: It’s a milestone in solar physics,” ...

Aman Priyadarshi Kumar, New Mexico State University astronomy Ph.D. student, didn’t start his graduate studies with solar ...

The sun is not only our closest stellar neighbor, it's also the star we understand the most. As we've observed it over the ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

Three strong Class M flares were recorded on the Sun. This was reported on December 29 on the website of the Laboratory of ...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

A New Mexico State University (NMSU) astronomy Ph.D. student, who was leading a data cataloging project, findings link ...

The powerful belch of material ejected during a solar flare may be way hotter than scientists thought it was. A new mathematical analysis suggests that the engine driving solar flares is far more ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...