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The sun is giving off solar eruptions so massive, it looks like a huge volcano. Amateur astronomer Peter Lawrence snapped this amazing close-up of the flares shooting into space from the sun’s eastern ...

Of all the things to worry about, the explosion of our sun is perhaps one of the least pressing. The Earth has seen five massive extinction events, and it's therefore natural to wonder whether we, as ...

No big deal, folks. The sun keeps exploding, but everything’s probably fine. “Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of ...