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 ...

The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.The X-class solar flare peaked at an X.12 at 6:40 a.m. EST (1140 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 3), releasing a blast of ...

Physicist Tamitha Skov told DailyMail.com: 'As for radio blackouts, yes the risk is increasing now. 'We have already had two small M-class flares, resulting in short-lived R1-level radio blackouts ...

The presence of free electrons in the flow field has been known to hinder the transmission and reception of radio-waves. Historically ... the more common re-entry vehicles will only undergo blackout ...

you would have noticed since the flare caused a 20-minute-long radio blackout at those frequencies. According to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, the sunspot has the energy to produce M ...

Mistajam's BBC 1Xtra show is one of several programmes to reflect the conversation around George Floyd's death Radio stations and TV channels have changed their programmes to mark "Blackout ...