Have you seen the Northern Lights? They're more than just pretty colors; when you see them in Pittsburgh, there's science ...

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 ...

This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, who found that the positively charged ions ...

Coronal loops are arc-shaped structures of plasma that follow the Sun's magnetic field lines. They often appear before solar ...

Over the past decade, the Mayan calendar has been subjected to close examination and intense debate. Could an ancient ...

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.

A recent study conducted by scientists led by Alexander Russell at the University of St. Andrews suggests that solar flares ...

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