“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is ...

Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all ...

Superflares are extremely strong solar flares -- explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar ...

Deflector shields are Star Trek's go-to defense mechanism, but they don't seem to defend against all kinds of attacks ...

New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future ...

Earth is overdue for a dangerous ‘superflare’ from the Sun that could wipe out satellites and power grids, scientists have ...

"Stars that are similar to our sun generate superflares once per century, which is 30 to 60 times more frequent than ...

Observations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred ...

Violent superflares erupt from sun-like stars about once a century, far more frequently than previously expected. As a ...

A survey of more than 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that “superflares” that could play havoc with electronics on Earth may ...

Scientists have so far identified five extreme solar particle events, three within the past 12,000 years, suggesting a rate ...

The Sun might be overdue for a storm stronger than any we’ve seen in recent history, based on an analysis of similar stars in ...