Dubbed the Carrington Event, the flare challenged perceptions of Earth's relationship with the sun, heavily impacting early ...

Unexpected solar activity caused Binar satellites to re-enter early, illustrating challenges of solar weather in low orbit.

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

Sunspots captured astronomers' interest, and with the expanding availability and quality of telescopes, were closely tracked until 1645. Despite huge interest in them, astronomers could find no ...

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

What is a Solar Flare? Solar flares are sudden energy bursts that occur on the surface of the Sun. These events are typically ...

Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere. That was always going to happen. In fact, Binar means "fireball" in the ...

Using data from their flight, scientists will observe how quickly the magnetic reconnection changes. The Sun emitted a strong ...