By: Tariq Malik Published: 05/13/2013 06:54 AM EDT on SPACE.com The sun unleashed a colossal Mother's Day solar flare on Sunday (May 12) in what...
By: Denise Chow, SPACE.com Contributor Published: 04/25/2013 10:43 AM EDT on SPACE.com The sun has unleashed a trio of solar eruptions toward the ...
Was the sun in a bad mood this past weekend? Over a two-day period, it pumped out three powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The first CME came at ...
By: Tariq Malik Published: 02/10/2013 02:40 AM EST on SPACE.com A long-lasting solar flare erupted from the sun early Saturday (Feb. 9), trigger...
The sun recently unleashed a massive coronal mass ejection (CME), sending particles speeding toward our planet at around 575 miles per second. The ...
By: Space.com, staff Published: 01/14/2013 05:09 PM EST on SPACE.com A huge sun eruption on Sunday (Jan. 13) unleashed a wave of solar plasma ai...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 09/03/2012 08:20 AM EDT on SPACE.com An enormous sun eruption, shaped like a giant glowing light bulb, was captured...
What actually happens during a solar storm? How do sunspots, flares, and coronal mass ejections relate to one another? And what's the real effect the ...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 07/20/2012 03:12 PM EDT on SPACE.com A gigantic sunspot unleashed an intense solar flare early Thursday (July 19)...
The aurora borealis put on a dazzling show in more than a dozen states Monday night, according to SpaceWeather.com. A particularly spectacular disp...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 03/29/2012 09:58 AM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA spacecraft has captured video of a massive solar "tornado" fi...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 03/20/2012 02:03 PM EDT on SPACE.com A new video captures the frenzied sounds of a sun storm, based on data recorde...
By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 03/13/2012 05:28 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries Telescope images captured of the sun on Monday (March 12) show ...
By: Denise Chow Published: 03/06/2012 07:28 AM EST on SPACE.com An active region on the sun that unleashed a powerful solar flare Sunday (March ...
An aurora borealis may be beautiful, but can there be too much of a good thing? A new study published in the journal Space Weather analyzed the freque...
There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more either under construction or in the planning stages. Imagine what havoc it would wreak if we were to suddenly experience not just one or two nuclear meltdowns, but 400.
A NASA spacecraft has captured the image of a huge "cloaked" alien ship near the planet Mercury. Unless, of course, it didn't. On Dec. 1, NASA's He...
The sun was on fire last week. Sorry, we couldn't resist. But when it came to solar activity, the big shining star didn't let us down. On Thurs...
The aurora borealis, a geomagnetic phenomenon that's also known as the northern lights, is something we usually think of as occurring in, well, the no...
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a satellite monitoring the sun, caught an amazing scene over the weekend: A comet slammed into the sun,...
Too bright! This time-lapse footage captured Tuesday by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory shows a "coronal mass ejection" as it sparks between...
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