Such mighty solar flares are often accompanied with events called "coronal mass ejections," or CMEs, which are massive ejections of super hot gas (like throwing a chunk of the sun into space).

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...

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 ...

Solar flares are explosions from the sun's surface that emit intense bursts ... of not a simple pair but a quartet, making it "super-sympathetic", according to Spaceweather.com.

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. As we continue deeper into Solar Cycle 25, more solar flares are expected to erupt from ...

"It’s similar to how the Sun’s magnetic field gathers, compresses, and then erupts a solar flare," Yusef-Zadeh told NASA. "Of course, the processes are more dramatic because the environment ...