The only way to measure the sun's past activity is to look for evidence of spiking flares in preserved tree trunks and ancient glacial ice. However, these sources haven't allowed researchers to get a real idea of whether the sun releases superflares and, if so, how often.

Observations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred years. Could our sun create one soon?

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

The Sun is a giant glowing ball of plasma that keeps our solar system together, but there are billions of stars like it spread out across the cosmos. Although scientists have only

A study of 56,000 Sun-like stars has revealed that stars like ours may experience powerful "superflares" about once per century.

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