The Sun has unleashed a powerful solar flare, Nasa has said. The flare, designated X2.3, belongs to the most intense X class ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named 3856, is facing Earth and has developed a volatile type of magnetic field ...

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 ...

A CME was not produced from the solar flare, which removes the chance for a geomagnetic storm to impact Earth and create auroras. The sun put on quite the spooktacular show on Halloween ...

Our sun has officially hit its solar maximum, with increased rates of auroras and solar flares expected in the coming months, NASA has announced. The sun goes through 11-year cycles of activity ...

After reaching solar maximum in Solar Cycle 25, the Sun continues producing multiple solar flares, with some Earth-directed components. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G1 ...

“A solar flare is a massive explosion in the sun’s atmosphere caused by the release of energy from the sun’s magnetic fields that become twisted and tangled,” Hayes explained. “When this ...

After reaching solar maximum in Solar Cycle 25, the Sun continues producing multiple solar flares, with some Earth-directed components. Thankfully, those will arrive after Election Day.