Social media was shocked at the sight of a red triangle around the moon during totality last Monday, with even mainstream media outlets reporting that a "solar flare" was seen. Over 40 million ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun ...

It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...

As a result, the space agency says that solar flares will increase over the next few years. And that it could cause some problems for Earth throughout 2025. Of course, it isn’t all that ...

Researchers have made a potentially crucial breakthrough in solar science that could help predict solar flares with greater ...

The Sun’s activity cycle continues to stir things up, as our star recently unleashed a massive X-class solar flare that was strong enough to cause radio blackouts across the south Pacific.

Solar weather will likely impact the Earth’s atmosphere this weekend, including a possible geomagnetic storm that could bring ...

An X-class solar flare erupted on December 29, 2023, sending a burst of solar energy toward Earth that may enhance auroras just in time for New Year celebrations. The flare, classified as X1.1 ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now ...

STIX captured the location and size of X-rays emitted by solar flares, which are now represented with those blue circles, while the EUI images showcase the sun's outer atmosphere in yellow.

Like lens flare in a digital photo ... aspects of the Sun that directly affect our life on Earth: solar wind, solar flares, ...

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...