Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

It was an X-class flare — the most intense kind, NASA said. Solar flares are essentially "giant explosions on the sun" that send energy, light and high-speed particles into space, according to NASA.

Artist's concept of the star HIP 67522 with a flare erupting toward an orbiting planet, HIP 67522 b. A second planet, HIP ...

A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding ...

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system the biggest ones can have as much energy as a billion ...

The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

HIP 67522 b, a Jupiter-sized planet, orbits its star in just 7 days. Its closeness disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering stellar flares that scorch the planet’s atmosphere ...

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...

A colossal hole in the Sun's atmosphere is gradually turning towards Earth, potentially triggering G1-class geomagnetic storms by late June.