The huge solar flare may be the last big explosion from the sun this year. The sun is not quite done with 2024.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This suggests that the same mechanism generates flares on the sun and on sun-like stars. Solar flares are often accompanied by massive ejections of plasma called coronal mass ejections ...