The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth ...

Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

A solar flare erupts from the sun's surface in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2012. On rare occasions, much more extreme solar storms affect the Earth in a way that if ...

Discover more about the Sun's solar cycle and how it impacts us here on Earth, from increased auroras to overwhelmed power ...

Scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel ...

By analyzing tree rings for carbon-14, a naturally occurring radioactive variant of carbon, the team detected this ancient ...

Three satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere earlier than expected due ...

and many thought that the solar flare and later storm were only coincidentally related. Effects of solar magnetism Hale’s discovery of solar magnetism about 50 years after the Carrington event ...

This explosive “solar flare” lasted only a few minutes ... with telegraph systems running without their batteries or bursting into flames. It is debated what the effects of a similar event would be on ...