A new study reveals solar flares can reach a staggering 108 million degrees Fahrenheit, six times hotter than previously ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter ...

Scientists from the University of St Andrews have discovered that ions in solar flares can reach scorching temperatures more than 60 million degrees—6.5 times hotter than previously believed. This ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun's atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are ...

Solar flares heat ions much more strongly than electrons. The finding offers a new explanation for spectral line broadening.

The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been captured by the world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii.

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

New research from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland found that solar flare particles can reach more than 100 million ...

What processes are responsible for heating solar flares and what dangers do they pose to Earth? This is what a recent study ...

Solar flares—intense releases of electromagnetic radiation into the sun’s atmosphere—could be more than six times hotter than ...