When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated rapid spatiotemporal vertical electric currents (VECs) ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

Antennas installed at 18 U.S. high schools detected bursts of radio activity that can precede solar disturbances capable of ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which could cause a series of radio and satellite blackouts across the U.S., according to NASA. Solar flares are powerful bursts ...

Sunspot region 4114 has unleashed its most powerful solar flare yet — an X1.9 class that erupted late June 19, triggering ...

In May 2024, the largest solar flare since 2017 was detected, ranking at an X-8.7 magnitude. Then in 2025, a flare May 13 was classified as an X-1.2 , and another the next day was listed as an X-2.7.

Sun has blasted an X flare towards Earth once again. The eruption reached us and disrupted communications systems. Sunspot region 4114 released the X flare, the most powerful solar flare, on Tuesday ...

Midsummer Night's Eve and the summer solstice may see aurora close to the U.S. Canada border after a geomagnetic storm in the wake of an X-class solar flare ...

The solar maximum, according to scientists, began in October 2024, and the sunspot number will start decreasing as the cycle moves toward solar minimum. According to spaceweather.com, the sunspot ...