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A new study on 56,450 sun-like stars reveals that superflares occur more frequently than thought, about once every century.

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

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

This report represents the collective hopes of scientists who study the Sun, setting out plans for improving our knowledge of ...

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High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than ...

New research on Comet 67P indicates that its water may be similar to Earth's, contradicting earlier findings by Rosetta's ...