The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was zipping through space when a "hole" opened up in the sun's atmosphere near its south pole. It wasn't really a hole, per se. It was a coronal hole — a spot in the sun's ...

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Russia has started using decoy flares on its missiles, a Ukrainian soldier said. The flares can trick air defense systems trying to take them out. The soldier said this is a new tactic and is a ...

Solar flares can be many times the size of Earth and can damage things like satellites. A new study suggests that eruptions from the sun can be even hotter than researchers thought. Solar flares are ...

NASA has detected a large grouping of sunspots — dark patches on the sun — known as AR3576, which have increased in size in the last month and could be a risk for strong solar flares. Solar flares, ...

Beautiful yet dangerous solar flares that erupt from the sun could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say. That's more than six times hotter than solar physicists previously ...

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo ...