In 1859, our star produced an extremely powerful solar flare, a burst of light radiation ... suggested that these giant bursts tend to occur many hundreds to thousands of years apart.

Stunning imagery from outer space shows the power of the Sun, with a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from the giant star’s surface, but space experts say there is no need ...

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M6.6-class, peaking at 11:32 pm EDT on Oct. 28, 2014 – the latest in a series of substantial flares from a giant active region on the sun that first ...