The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

An artist's impression of a superflare on a Sun-like star as seen in white light (visible band). According to new research, the chance of a massive solar flare bringing down power grids and ...

A powerful X1.8 solar flare erupted on January 4, 2025, and was recorded at its peak—7:48 a.m. ET—by NOAA’s Solar Ultraviolet ...

In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. The biggest flare of the series, recorded at a M7.3, erupted from sunspot region AR3938 on ...

massive solar outbursts, or from several smaller ones. It is also uncertain if the sun can produce flares and particle storms so large in a single outburst. The frequency of these signs on Earth ...

These superflares are similar to the solar flares we see emitted from our sun, except much more powerful, releasing thousands of times the energy of a typical solar flare. By comparison ...

Add solar superflares to the list of natural disasters of concern. Superflares are extremely strong solar flares – explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares.

The northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact ...