This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun ... of the sky, tamper with GPS-based equipment on Earth, and trigger widespread power outages in ...

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the ... planet facing the sun. This occurs because the solar flare's intense X-rays and extreme ...

Unlike a total solar eclipse, part of the sun is still visible during a partial solar eclipse, so there is no darkening of the sky or visible solar corona.