An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detailed an inverse relationship between the brightness of the solar corona and the velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in a paper published in The ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

SDO has roughly two 'eclipse seasons' per year, and is currently in its 31st since the mission launched. It begain on July 10 ...

Space-watchers were shocked after spotting a 250,000-mile-long "canyon of fire" carved into the Sun. A massive solar filament ...

A new study demonstrates how an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) clears the path for following transients and ...

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can trigger geomagnetic storms on Earth that cause brilliant auroras, disrupt satellites and ...

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are dramatic expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun’s corona that can trigger a spectrum of space weather phenomena. These solar eruptions, as they ...

The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.

A cloud of hot, magnetized plasma — a coronal mass ejection — erupted from the Sun on Wednesday, July 23, headed off into ...

SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the real world, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is doing the next best thing, having ...