The sun has just spat out the strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle, which began in 2019, according to a breaking report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA ...

Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's surface. They occur when intense magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly ...

The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, May 8. /TASS/. Scientists detected ten powerful solar flares that erupted from the Sun over the past day, the Institute of Applied Geophysics has told TASS. The first flare, ranked as ...

A massive solar flare that erupted on Oct. 29 could interfere with communications networks on Earth the following day, according to the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.

The spacecraft recorded the first-ever image of a solar flare ‘kernel.’ This rare observation was made in the lower solar atmosphere. The captured image shows the phenomenon in the photosphere ...