As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun's surface. These spectacular solar structures, known as coronal ...

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 ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's ...

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, kicked off in 2024, allowing an unusually high number of powerful X-class flares to explode from our home star. | Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL The number ...

An X-class solar flare erupted on December 29, 2023, sending a burst of solar energy toward Earth that may enhance auroras just in time for New Year celebrations. The flare, classified as X1.1 ...

This period will see an uptick in solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and geomagnetic storms, with far-reaching impacts on Earth’s technology and natural phenomena. Solar Cycle 25 is ...

STIX captured the location and size of X-rays emitted by solar flares, which are now represented with those blue circles, while the EUI images showcase the sun's outer atmosphere in yellow.

STIX captured the location and size of X-rays emitted by solar flares, which are now represented with those blue circles, while the EUI images showcase the sun's outer atmosphere in yellow. The ...

As US tariffs squeeze Chinese solar firms across Southeast Asia, Indonesia is emerging as a surprising outlier – sensing opportunity where others feel the heat. While its neighbours grapple with ...

While technical systems are expected to experience only moderate effects during the storm, the solar flare that triggered these CMEs caused a brief shortwave radio blackout over parts of Africa ...

This Christmas Day, the skies may add to the festive cheer with a display of auroras, thanks to a blob of charged particles enroute to deliver a "glancing blow" to our planet following a powerful ...