"We were excited by recent discoveries that a process called magnetic reconnection heats ions 6.5 times as much as electrons, ...

For decades, physicists have known that flare plasma gets incredibly hot, but exactly how different particles heat up has ...

Researchers observed that ions (positively charged particles in the plasma) can reach temperatures exceeding 60 million ...

New findingspublished in The Astrophysical Journal Letterssuggest that solar flares—massive explosions of energy in the Sun’s atmosphere—may be up to 6.5 times hotter than scientists previously ...

For decades, scientists have known that solar flares—huge bursts of energy from the sun’s outer atmosphere—can reach ...

New research has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than previously thought and provided an ...

A train derailed in Palo Pinto County, with 35 cars overturning Tuesday. Crews are conducting a controlled "liquid flare" burn-off of propane from a damaged car. The operation is expected to last up ...