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

A new study reveals solar flares can reach a staggering 108 million degrees Fahrenheit, six times hotter than previously thought. This discovery resolves a decades-old mystery about broadened spectral ...

This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, who found that the positively charged ions in solar flares—one of the two key components of solar plasma—can be ...

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 ...

Solar flares heat ions much more strongly than electrons. The finding offers a new explanation for spectral line broadening. Recent work from the Andrews suggests that particles in solar flares can ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of light and particles from the sun. While they can pose hazards for things like satellites, these flares are also beautiful, dramatic and incredibly hot. NPR's Nell ...

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

A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence system built by Nasa in collaboration with IBM can predict violent solar storms ...

Research by university scientists suggests that solar flares may be far hotter than previously believed, offering new insights into the Sun’s behavior. The findings, recently published in the ...

What processes are responsible for heating solar flares and what dangers do they pose to Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an ...