The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, officially arrived in 2024, triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful ...

An artist's impression of a superflare on a Sun-like star as seen in white light (visible band). According to new research, the chance of a massive solar flare bringing down power grids and ...

In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. The biggest flare of the series, recorded at a M7.3, erupted from sunspot region AR3938 on ...

The sun released over 50 X-class solar flares in 2024! Here we take a look at some of the best. It's been a busy year on the sun, as it officially entered the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle of ...

massive solar outbursts, or from several smaller ones. It is also uncertain if the sun can produce flares and particle storms so large in a single outburst. The frequency of these signs on Earth ...

Add solar superflares to the list of natural disasters of concern. Superflares are extremely strong solar flares – explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares.

These superflares are similar to the solar flares we see emitted from our sun, except much more powerful, releasing thousands of times the energy of a typical solar flare. By comparison ...

This suggests that the same mechanism generates flares on the sun and on sun-like stars. Solar flares are often accompanied by massive ejections of plasma called coronal mass ejections ...