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 ...

Solar flares are nothing new to Earth and we have experienced quite a few this year, but this weekend the sun let out a coronal mass ejection which is something a bit different. On Saturday, the sun ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole flare thought to be the brightest and most distant discovered yet. Credit: Caltech / R. Hurt illustration A supermassive black hole tearing apart a ...

For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy. These ultra-magnetic stellar corpses were thought to be responsible for some of the highest-energy ...