The region has unleashed at least two powerful solar flares in the last 12 hours, and experts are certain there's more to ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation that occur when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is released. The recent eruptions, categorized as X-class flares—the strongest ...

A series of three powerful flares and associated explosions of solar material out across the Solar System have set Earth ...

Could three giant solar storms combine into one of the most powerful geomagnetic storms in decades? That’s exactly what space ...

Flares of this magnitude are not frequent,” noted officials at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, and this week the Sun ...

Solar physicist Dr Richa Jain explains that we are currently in Solar Cycle 25, which began in December 2019 and is now at ...

As a particularily active sunspot region rotates into view, the sun has released its largest solar flare since June.

The back-to-back eruptions caused radio blackouts across two hemispheres as the active sunspots turn to face Earth.

Sunspot AR4618 erupted with an M4.4-class solar flare causing a coronal mass ejection (CME) that may give Earth a glancing blow. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

After researchers published their findings of two different spider species peacefully cohabiting in a giant colony nestled in ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent years. These beautiful light shows are caused by ...