These storms are measured by something called the Disturbance Storm Time index, a negative measurement of the strength of Earth’s own electromagnetic field, which is pressured by the solar storm. The ...

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated that such events occurred only every 3000 to 6000 years. The result, from ...

MacPhail’s interest in the night sky began when he heard President John F. Kennedy’s speech in 1962 that the United States would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. MacPhail’s parents ...

Tony Harnett, who divides his time between Beddgelert and Warrington, was hoping to find the aurora lights in Eryri ...

Forecasts suggest that peak solar activity will make aurora borealis displays even more intense than usual in 2025. Here are ...

A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, introduces a newly defined "filament channel" function. This new ...

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 ...

The wildfire smoke that often wafts across the U.S. West may only be causing minimal disturbance to the output of ...

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 ...

Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's surface. They occur when intense ...

A Dec. 5 house fire in LaPorte County's unincorporated Fish Lake community killed a 64-year-old man, the sheriff's office said.

What's the difference between a solar flare and a coronal mass ejection? And how do they lead to auroras?