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

After witnessing the array of Northern Lights as far south as Colorado, we discuss how Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) are ...

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 ...

Sunspots AR3664 and AR3663 have been erupting with X- and M-class solar flares. Both sunspots are Earth-facing and could potentially deliver a solar storm. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured ...

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

Aug. 5, 2024 — A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry ... of exactly when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth. Scientists say ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solar flares are explosive energy bursts that the ... What could happen if a Superflare hits Earth? According to the sources, a solar superflare, when hitting Earth, may create immense disturbance.

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 ...

These storms are measured by something called the Disturbance Storm Time index, a negative measurement of the strength of ...