The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during flares.

Extremely active sunspot AR3664 blasted a major X8.7-class solar flare. The sunspot was behind the incredible geomagnetic storms that recently bathed Earth in auroras. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, who found that the positively charged ions in solar flares—one of the two key components of solar plasma—can be ...

Adam Sherwinski & Dave Leake teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about solar flares Solar flares are powerful bursts of ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

The world's largest solar telescope just captured the highest-resolution images of a solar flare to date — and they're spectacular. Researchers trained the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...

Solar flares heat ions much more strongly than electrons. The finding offers a new explanation for spectral line broadening. Recent work from the Andrews suggests that particles in solar flares can ...

Research by university scientists suggests that solar flares may be far hotter than previously believed, offering new insights into the Sun’s behavior. The findings, recently published in the ...

Sunspot AR3229 erupted with an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

NASA captured an image of an intense solar flare released by the sun on Tuesday evening. The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class ...

A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence system built by Nasa in collaboration with IBM can predict violent solar storms threatening satellites and power grids two hours before they erupt from the ...