A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South America ...

Physicists tracked the approach and planetfall of a geomagnetic storm this week, with waves of energy ejected from the Sun seen hitting the Earth late on Tuesday. Officials from the National ...

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...

Her team concluded that this spike must have come from something injecting a huge number of particles towards Earth – most likely a monster burst of particles thrown out by the sun. The ...

an expulsion of plasma and magnetic field from the sun. When CMEs (also known as solar storms) hit Earth's magnetosphere they can trigger active geomagnetic storm conditions resulting in ...

Cosmic rays can come from distant supernovas, black holes and even the sun, and they constantly lash Earth's upper atmosphere. When they splinter as they interact with air molecules, they produce ...

Parker planned to get more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft, hitting 430,000 ... The sun's warming rays make life possible on Earth. But severe solar storms can ...

Curiosity captured both the sun rays and iridescent clouds as panoramas, each of which was stitched together from 28 images sent to Earth. The images have been processed to emphasize the highlights.

Related: X-class solar flares hit a new record ... planet facing the sun. This occurs because the solar flare's intense X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation ionize Earth's upper atmosphere ...