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

Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth ...

When a solar flare is intense enough, it can affect radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and also ...

A CME was not produced from the solar flare, which removes the chance for a geomagnetic storm to impact Earth and create ...

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

"Sunspots are complex magnetic regions of the sun where energy can be stored in huge amounts," astronomer Peter T. Gallagher said.

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

Solar flares are not directly responsible for the aurora borealis. The lights are caused by a phenomenon known as coronal ...

90 flare. Solar flares, large eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun, are categorized by their strength, starting at B-class, which are the weakest, all the way up to the strongest, the X ...

"During May 2024, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest geomagnetic storm ...