NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

Solar flares can send charged particles across vast distances and if they erupt while aimed our way, they can cause issues ...

The multimillion-dollar experiment that was years in the making comes as the federal government makes broad cuts to science ...

An Earth-facing sunspot has turned into a prolific flare factory, firing off multiple powerful M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours, along with several minor C-class eruptions.

What it finds could help us understand everything from the next solar flare to the larger rhythms of space weather – and perhaps even help protect the technology we rely on here on Earth. The mission ...

Key things to know: FLARE is 12 feet long, 9 feet in diameter and weighs more than 10 tons; Reconnection occurs throughout the universe and powers giant plasma eruptions on the sun’s surface ...

ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker examines a recent solar flare captured by NASA. “All these little solar flares and ejections of gas and material are relatively small on the ...

We propose to incorporate three interpretable methods, namely SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations), PDP (partial dependence plots) and Anchors, into a deep learning-based model, called SolarFlareNet, ...

E arth is heating up, but it doesn't only face threats from climate change. The Sun also experiences 'weather' changes, and one thing you might have heard about is solar flares. But what are they, ...

A Jupiter-like planet orbiting a white dwarf hints at our solar system’s future By Ken Croswell October 13, 2021. More Stories from Science News on Planetary Science. Life ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface, revealing ultra-fine bright and dark stripes called striations that are caused by powerful magnetic ...