Observations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred ...

High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than ...

By Alex WilkinsThe sun may produce extremely powerful bursts of radiation more frequently than we thought. Such “superflares” ...

The Sun is a giant glowing ball of plasma that keeps our solar system together, but there are billions of stars like it ...

New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future ...

The Sun might be overdue for a storm stronger than any we’ve seen in recent history, based on an analysis of similar stars in ...

The only way to measure the sun's past activity is to look for evidence of spiking flares in preserved tree trunks and ...

The investigation that led the USTR to raise the tariffs on solar panels concluded with a report in May that has prompted increases in tariffs on a range of products including electric vehicles, ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

The U.S. solar industry unveiled its lobbying strategy for the incoming Trump administration on Thursday, promoting itself as ...

Superflares are extremely strong solar flares -- explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares.

Point Time to get real about renewables The debate over fossil fuels has produced a narrative that is long on rhetoric and short on realism. Those who argue for a complete transition from coal, ...