Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A white orb is seen with loopy lines trailing around it. Astronomers believe they have found a rare, massive flare that erupted ...

The Sun emitted two strong solar flares, peaking at 4:48 a.m. and 2:36 p.m. ET on Saturday, June 1, 2024. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured images of the ...

(CN) — In a study published in Nature on Wednesday, dozens of scientists from around the world propose a ghostly explanation for mysterious blue-tinted light bursts in deep space. The ...

While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space ...

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at the ...

During a powerful solar blast March 6/7, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the Sun. The discovery heralds Fermi’s new role as ...

(CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The constant, rapid-fire display ...

Scientists have been studying solar flares for years and have tried to predict when and where one will explode from the boiling-hot surface of the sun, and now new clues have been discovered that may ...

Huge cosmic bursts are coming from two black holes circling each other in a distant galaxy. One of these flares was 100 times brighter than our galaxy and only lasted one day. The system consists of a ...