Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.
The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.
The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years ...
The Sun released a strong solar flare on Tuesday, Feb. 3, following several eruptions in the preceding days, prompting ...
NASA’s latest close-up of our star is not just a pretty picture. When the Parker Solar Probe swooped to within 3.8 million miles of the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, it delivered a view of the corona that no ...
Recent X8-class solar flare activity reveals critical weaknesses in America's power grid, where geomagnetic currents could destroy transformers and trigger prolonged blackouts.
For much of the past decade, Andrew McCarthy has been exploring the universe—albeit from his backyard in Arizona. Using telescopes with specialized filters, planetary cameras, and astro-specific ...
A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption.