The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), often referred to as China’s 'artificial sun,' successfully sustained plasma for a record 1,000 seconds, or over 17 minutes. This ...