In an unprecedented achievement, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached a historic milestone: the spacecraft has successfully completed its third and final approach to within just 3.86 million ...

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

A new study has uncovered a connection between solar flares—sudden outbursts of radiation from stars—and short-term weather patterns on distant Earth-like planets.

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

On June 15th, a significant M8.46 solar flare from sunspot region AR 4114 caused shortwave radio blackouts, particularly affecting the Americas. NOAA classified it as an R2 event, impacting ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which could cause a series of radio and satellite blackouts across the U.S., according to NASA. Solar flares are powerful bursts ...

In May 2024, the largest solar flare since 2017 was detected, ranking at an X-8.7 magnitude. Then in 2025, a flare May 13 was classified as an X-1.2 , and another the next day was listed as an X-2.7.

It was an X-class flare — the most intense kind, NASA said. Solar flares are essentially "giant explosions on the sun" that send energy, light and high-speed particles into space, according to NASA.

NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — ...

Key things to know: FLARE is 12 feet long, 9 feet in diameter and weighs more than 10 tons Reconnection occurs throughout the universe and powers giant plasma eruptions on the sun’s surface ...