Solar Flare News

Posted December 13, 2010:

• NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline En Route to Interstellar Space
• Global Eruption Rocks the Sun: Scientists Re-Evaluate Ideas About Solar Storms

Posted December 1, 2010:

• Dark Matter Could Transfer Energy in the Sun

Posted November 9, 2010:

• Sensor on Mars Rover to Measure Radiation Environment

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Coronal Mass Ejections: Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Exploding Plasma Clouds on the Sun

Posted November 5, 2010:

• NASA Extends TIMED Mission for Fourth Time

Posted October 27, 2010:

• Out of THEMIS, ARTEMIS: Earth's Loss Is Moon's Gain

Posted October 22, 2010:

• Falkland Islands Radar Study Impacts Climate Research: New Equipment Will Monitor Activity Which Creates the ‘Southern Lights’

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Space Weather Mystery Solved: Link Found Between Electrons Trapped in Space and Upper Atmosphere's Diffuse Aurora

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Designing Instruments for a Robotic Space Probe to the Sun
• Neptune Could Not Have Knocked Planetoids in Cold Classical Kuiper Belt to Edge of Solar System

Posted September 29, 2010:

• Wide-Field Imager Selected for Solar Probe Plus Mission

Posted September 23, 2010:

• Magnetic Anomalies: New Type of Solar Wind Interaction With Airless Bodies in Our Solar System

Posted September 14, 2010:

• ARTEMIS: First Earth-Moon Libration Orbiter

Posted September 4, 2010:

• New Mission to Skim the Sun: NASA Selects Science Investigations for Solar Probe Plus

Posted September 1, 2010:

• New Solar Prediction System Gives Time to Prepare for the Storms Ahead
• Navigation Satellites Contend With Stormy Sun

Posted August 31, 2010:

• A Decade of Studying the Earth's Magnetic Shield, in 3-D

Posted August 26, 2010:

• Shrinking Atmospheric Layer Linked to Low Levels of Solar Radiation
• Distant Star's Sound Waves Reveal Cycle Similar to the Sun's

Posted August 25, 2010:

• Strange Case of Solar Flares and Radioactive Elements

Posted August 15, 2010:

• Evidence of New Solar Activity from Observations of Aurora in New Zealand

Posted August 12, 2010:

• Extended Solar Minimum Linked to Changes in Sun's Conveyor Belt

Posted August 2, 2010:

• Aurora Alert: The Sun Is Waking Up

Posted July 21, 2010:

• Dark Matter May Be Lurking at Heart of the Sun

Posted July 16, 2010:

• Insights Into the Largely Invisible Interaction Between the Sun and Earth Provided by ESA's Cluster Mission

Posted July 2, 2010:

• Watch While an Asteroid Eats a Star

Posted June 29, 2010:

• Voyager 2 at 12,000 Days: The Super-Marathon Continues

Posted June 21, 2010:

• Scientists Discover Heavenly Solar Music

Posted June 16, 2010:

• As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather

Posted June 8, 2010:

• Artificial Aurora Created to Help Predict Space Weather

Posted May 24, 2010:

• Comet Dives Into Sun: STEREO, SOHO Spacecraft Catch Crash

Posted April 21, 2010:

• NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images

Posted April 14, 2010:

• Space Storms Could Threaten UK Power Grid

Posted April 13, 2010:

• Solar Explosion Tracked All the Way from the Sun to Earth
• ACE Measurements and STEREO Vision Build Space Weather Forecasting System

Posted April 12, 2010:

• Magnetic 'Ropes' Tie Down Solar Eruptions

Posted March 12, 2010:

• Mars Constantly Loses Part of Its Atmosphere to Space Due to Solar Wind

Posted March 11, 2010:

• Shocking Recipe for Making Killer Electrons

Posted February 19, 2010:

• European Space Agency Chooses Three Scientific Missions for Further Study

Posted February 15, 2010:

• The Rhythm of Our Star

Posted February 4, 2010:

• Instruments to Study Space Weather Set for NASA Launch

Posted January 26, 2010:

• Technology-Testing Proba-2 Opens New Eye on the Sun

Posted January 12, 2010:

• Sky Map: Solar Scientists Use 'Magnetic Mirror Effect' to Reproduce IBEX Observation

Posted January 4, 2010:

• Eclipses Yield First Images of Elusive Iron Line in the Solar Corona

Posted December 15, 2009:

• Latest Results from Lunar Mission Unveiled by NASA

Posted December 11, 2009:

• Weir in Space and Dimmed Sun Creates 200-Million-Mile-Long Lab Bench for Turbulence Research

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Lightning Strike in Africa Helps Take Pulse of Sun
• Bubbling Ball of Gas: SUNRISE Telescope Delivers Spectacular Pictures of Sun's Surface

Posted November 2, 2009:

• Solar Winds Triggered by Magnetic Fields

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