ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is working on 1,358 MegaWatts of solar power plants, as part of efforts to reach 70 percent, renewable energy by 2030, Power Minister Kumara Jayakody said. Some of the plants ...

Extremely active sunspot AR3664 blasted a major X8.7-class solar flare. The sunspot was behind the incredible geomagnetic storms that recently bathed Earth in auroras.

An international team, including an Oregon State University astrophysicist, has confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections of the sun’s magnetic ...

Aditya-L1’s SUIT detects a solar flare kernel in near-UV for the first Observations confirm energy transfer across different solar layers Findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters ...

Unlike the total solar eclipse in April 2024, the upcoming total lunar eclipse, the first since November 2022, doesn't require special equipment to witness safely. Here's what makes the lunar ...

Unlike the total solar eclipse in April 2024, the upcoming total lunar eclipse, the first since November 2022, doesn't require special equipment to witness safely. Here's what makes the lunar ...

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For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now ...

The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...