NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral display just erupted in another powerful solar flare early on Friday morning ...

The eruption was accompanied by a CME, which is currently under analysis to assess whether any part of it is headed for Earth ...

Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around Earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, ...

WARNINGS have been issued as an ‘extreme’ solar storm hits Earth capable of power loss and radio blackouts. A ...

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center stated that those flares were accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that could ...

The energetic particles are currently bombarding satellites orbiting Earth, peppering their imaging systems and disrupting space-based observations.

The X5.1-class eruption from sunspot AR4274 is this year's most powerful solar flare and Earth is in the firing line.

These CMEs are currently headed toward Earth and will likely cause strong to minor geomagnetic storms later today and ...

A New Mexico State University astronomer and her team can now predict space weather in the sweet spot between two extremes of current methods that provide warnings of solar flares that can ...

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 ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfvén waves in the Sun's corona – elusive magnetic waves that scientists have ...