Unlike the terrified masses in the 2009 SYFY original film Star Runners, who hide under solar flare shields so they don’t end up being burned to death in the heat of a solar storm, Mercury is a ...

The eruption was likely triggered by a powerful solar flare, which occurred around 7 p.m. ET on March 9, Spaceweather.com reported. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spotted a large ...

The sun has unleashed a trio of solar eruptions toward the planet Mercury in recent days, solar storms that may pass one NASA spacecraft while dealing a glancing blow to another, NASA officials ...

The sun is getting more active as it nears solar maximum, and the Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe missions are perfectly poised to witness our star’s increasing flares and storms.

Powerful solar flare erupts from sun triggering radio blackouts across North America (video) This image of a coronal mass ejection (CME) was captured on April 20, 2013. The CME is headed in the ...

Solar flares can send charged particles across vast distances and if they erupt while aimed our way, they can cause issues here on Earth. Recently, our central star released some of its most powerful ...

On Feb. 17, a solar flare exploded from a sunspot near the sun's south pole, releasing a gigantic column of plasma that towered around 124,000 miles (200,000 km) above the solar surface.

Accuweather says that energy from solar flares can even affect cell service in some areas. So if you thought you were having a Mercury retrograde hangover, don’t worry; it’s just the sun.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Physicists have done the unthinkable and created tiny solar flares within a lab to help us better understand solar ... An ESA video shows Mercury transiting the Sun as solar outbursts jut from our ...

1 of 3 | A huge solar flare, the largest since 2017, disrupted radio communications o nEarth Thursday afternoon. A medium-sized (M2) solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME) is depicted on ...