The M-class flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection currently forecast to land Earth with a glancing blow on June 18 ...

Sunspot region 4114 has fired off its strongest blast yet — an X1.2-class solar flare that erupted on June 17, triggering ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation from this flare caused a shortwave radio blackout. A map released by the ...

The sun has been rather quiet of late but has since roared back to life with a major X-class solar flare eruption, the most powerful class of solar flare. The intense solar flare originated from ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has detected the strongest solar eruption of the current sunspot cycle. The solar flare was rated at X9.0 strength.

This loss of signal was detected over most of Asia and Australia during the recent X-flare eruption. Solar flares are classified by size into different classes, with X-class flares being the most ...

Solar flares are ranked on a scale from A to X, ... The higher the number, the stronger the flare — and Tuesday’s X2.7 eruption was enough to light up solar observatories around the world.

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

Pictures of the International Space Station as it passes in front of the Sun or Moon are a bit of a feather in the cap of ...

I n a rare celestial alignment, a solar flare erupted just as the International Space Station (ISS) passed in front of the ...