The Sun’s most violent flares are turning out to be even more extreme than I, or many solar physicists, had imagined. By tracking how these eruptions light up the high‑energy sky, researchers have ...

Cryptocurrency investors face an unusual danger lurking 93 million miles away. Solar flares, massive bursts of energy from the sun’s surface, can interfere with the digital infrastructure that keeps ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...