A new study looking at solar flares may have solved a 50-year-old mystery about our host star, finding that solar flares may ...

The frequently discussed worst case scenario is the so-called Carrington event — a storm that hit Earth in 1859, knocking out telegraph services all over the world.

Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful solar storms that threaten Earth, a new study suggests.

Two massive solar storms appearing four days apart in the late summer of 1859 gave “the week the sun touched the earth” its name. The first one reached here Aug. 28, and the second one Sept. 1.

In comparison, the famous Carrington event in 1859 was a different kind of event and not accompanied by a solar particle storm.

Big Blue and the US space agency are open sourcing their latest AI model, named Surya, the Sanskrit word for the Sun. This has been developed to predict the kind of violent solar flare-ups that can ...