The sun has just fired off an eruption so intense it ranks among the most powerful solar flares seen in three decades, a jolt ...

Space weather has seen a flurry of activity this week. An explosive solar flare that erupted Tuesday, just two days after the sun unleashed one of its most powerful flares, temporarily disrupted ...

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown ...

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

The Sun released a strong solar flare on Tuesday, Feb. 3, following several eruptions in the preceding days, prompting ...

The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.

This week, we examine strength from different perspectives. The energetic strength of a solar flare and its effect on Earth. The gravitational strength of dark matter in our universe and its ...

NASA has reported a X4.2 solar flare, so what does it mean? We break down what a solar flare is and how it connects to the aurora Australis.

Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.

This cluster of sunspots has produced more than 60 solar flares, including several that could spark colorful auroras across ...

Colorful auroras could dazzle skywatchers again on Monday night amid a severe geomagnetic storm and what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said was the largest solar radiation storm ...

A new theoretical study explores how activity high above Earth could subtly influence processes deep within the planet’s crust. Researchers at Kyoto University are advancing a new idea about how space ...