Sunspot AR3842 erupted with an X7.1-class solar flare. NASA models predict that the coronal mass ejection created by the ...

The Sun has once again unleashed a powerful solar flare and this time it triggered radio blackouts.  The flare, which ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X2.3 solar flare on November 6th, 2024, causing shortwave radio blackouts in ...

A November 6 solar flare hit X2.3-class in strength, causing Atlantic radio blackouts, with more potentially on the way if further solar flares are released.

A small but mighty cluster of sunspots have made their biggest mark yet on Earth's magnetosphere—and on the radio signals that pass below it. After releasing an X2.3-class solar flare on Nov. 6, radio ...

More powerful solar flares are more common during the sun's ... which is thought to have released more power than millions of the largest nuclear bomb ever exploded on Earth," Woodward said.

As the solar cycle reaches its zenith, solar flares, solar system's largest explosive events, increase, which causes phenomena such as May's solar storm, the largest observed by NASA in decades.

Geomagnetic storming of this magnitude is common on NOAA’s 5-level scale. However, several sunspot regions on the Sun are ...

Solar flares erupt near sunspots on the surface of the sun. According to the NICT, an “X-class” explosion, the largest on a five-point scale, occurred at 10:56 a.m. on Oct. 9 in Japan Standard ...