The earth was hit with radio blackouts as the sun releases a colossal burst of radiation. Experts warn more is to come as the ...

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the Sun that sometimes hit Earth or shoot into deep space. Nasa explains: "A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of ...

NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

For the second time in two days, the sun flashed a powerful solar flare at Earth on Monday, Gizmodo reported. The X-ray and ultraviolet ... Why solar flares keep hitting Earth Solar cycles ...

NASA's DXL sounding rocket, which stands for Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local Galaxy, studied X-rays hitting Earth's atmosphere ... We know the sun constantly ejects solar material out ...

Scientists are on the hunt for the source of an "extremely" powerful cosmic ray which ... after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology. However, more than two years since it hit earth, its origin ...

Credit: NASA / SDO Our mild-mannered sun is capable of some mighty solar explosions. Fortunately for us, Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protect our bodies from such solar radiation ...

Space weather experts say that a ‘snake-like filament’ of radiation ... to hit Earth approximately 900 times over each 11-year solar cycle, during which the flares bursting from the sun ...

That's when the sun's rays hit that part of Earth more directly, heating Earth's surface. When it's summer in the northern hemisphere, it's winter in the southern hemisphere. Six months later ...

Scientists have detected the most energetic cosmic rays ever discovered, and they're being produced by mysterious sources relatively close to Earth. The rays — which consist of electrons and ...

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles produced by the sun; stellar explosions called ... the scientists created an energy spectrum for the rays hitting Earth in unprecedented detail.