The Sun fired off six X-class flares in the first four days of February 2026, a burst of extreme activity spanning roughly ...
A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense ...
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 ...
Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...