The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.
Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.
In a dramatic escalation of solar activity, the sun has unleashed an X8.3 flare — 2026’s strongest yet — causing radio ...
Multiple M-class and X-class solar flares erupted within 24 hours as an active sunspot released intense radiation affecting ...
A solar flare seen by the ESA's Solar Orbiter. Solar storms are semiregular events in which the sun belches gargantuan plumes of energized dust and gas towards the planet at speeds as fast as 2 ...
Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...
NASA researchers show that artificial intelligence can anticipate solar flare buildups by tracking subtle changes across the ...
Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...
In May 2024, part of the Sun exploded. The Sun is an immense ball of superheated gas called plasma. Because the plasma is conductive, magnetic fields loop out of the solar surface. Since different ...