There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of ...

The sun recently hurled two coronal mass ejections toward Earth. The first is expected to reach us on Tuesday sparking aurora ...

A so-called superflare is simply a particularly large solar flare capable of releasing one octillion joules of energy - that ...

The Sun is currently experiencing its solar maximum and we have seen its effects across the months with intense solar flares, ...

New study reveals the potential for advance warning of powerful solar flares from the Sun, providing crucial hours to protect ...

Solar flares are sudden bursts of radiation and ... and many of them just go out into the solar system and never hit Earth," Peter Gallagher, head of astronomy and astrophysics and director ...

Nor is this threat hypothetical since NASA astronauts have very nearly been killed by solar flares in the past. In August 1972, Earth was hit by one of the worst solar storms in recorded history ...

Credit: spaceweather.com Based on how fast the CME hit Earth after the solar flare and drawings of the solar disc at the time, it's now thought that there was a separate Earth-directed CME just ...

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Earth was hit by a coronal mass ejection last night, triggering a G1 geomagnetic storm and displays of the Northern Lights.

In August, the number of visible sunspots on the solar surface hit a 23-year high ... we can only properly see solar flares on the side of the sun facing Earth, although some farside explosions ...