For generations, scientists have believed they knew exactly how Earth would die. In roughly five ...
Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all ...
Studies of young Sun-like stars -- used as stand-ins for our own star's early years -- show that these stars often unleash flares far stronger than any recorded from the modern Sun. Reconstructing ...