The sun has just fired off an eruption so intense it ranks among the most powerful solar flares seen in three decades, a jolt ...
Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.
What will occur on the Earth when a sunspot with the size of approximately 6.5 Earths begins to release successive X-class ...
Considered our solar system's largest explosive events, solar flares can sometimes be as strong as a billion hydrogen bombs. Those with enough energy output to rank as an X-class have the potential to ...
The northern lights could be visible across as many as 16 northern states in the U.S. on Sunday, Nov. 9, into Monday, Nov. 10, with a G2 geomagnetic storm being forecast by space weather experts at ...
Like the number of sunspots, the occurrence of solar flares follows the approximately 11-year solar cycle. But as the current Solar Cycle 25 approaches its peak, how are the number of solar flares ...