NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

Sunspot AR3229 erupted with an X2-class solar flare on Feb. 17, 2023. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the ...

Two strong solar flares erupted from the sun within 12 hours of each other, according to information from NASA's Solar ...

The sun is an incomprehensibly gigantic, constantly roiling nuclear furnace—but some days are even busier than others. Based ...

Talk about a heated situation. The sun unleashed two colossal solar flares within seven hours of each other this week, triggering radio blackouts across parts of Earth. Solar flares are strong, ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of coronal loops above an active region on the sun in mid-January 2012. The image was taken in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

The $850 million Solar Dynamics Observatory may help scientists find the causes of solar weather events that disrupt technologies on Earth—while taking unprecedented high-resolution pictures of the ...

A solar eclipse on April 27, 2025, as seen only by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory. When is the next solar eclipse? Yesterday and today — but they were not reported in advance. Why? They were only in ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light on the Sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA’s ...