The Sun has scarred itself, quite literally. A massive explosion on the Sun's surface on July 15 left a “canyon of fire”, a huge mark that astronomers on Earth captured. The solar filament eruption ...

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, extended its heartfelt congratulations to Group Captain ...

The fact that we could map these changes from near the Sun all the way to Earth is a first in India—and likely a global first ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever to the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set yet another record by taking the closest images of the Sun anyone has ever seen.

The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar Physics have captured footage ...

That complexity could mean bigger fireworks ahead. With the sunspot now rotating to face Earth, it could pose a threat for stronger space weather events in the coming days. M-class flares, like those ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known ...

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. This peak is anticipated around mid to late ...

Space & Spaceflight This ‘Large and Unstable’ Sunspot Just Slammed Earth With Its Strongest Flare Yet Scientists predict another solar eruption may take place today.

A solar flare is visible with just the normal eight-minute light delay between Earth and the Sun, while a CME takes two to three days to get here.