Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

Science The active regions of the Sun are the site of powerful radiation emissions, called flares, which are among the most energetic phenomena in our solar system. A subcategory stands out because ...

The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Solar flares are a rather common occurrence that, if strong enough, could cause a huge catastrophe on Earth by causing mass communication disruptions and power outages.