Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...

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

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

A solar storm could bring the Northern Lights to Hudson Valley on New Year's Eve, but the weather might not cooperate.

Fast solar wind from a massive coronal hole in the sun could trigger dazzling auroral displays as geomagnetic activity is ...

These dark spots have been spitting out frequent and powerful solar storms that occasionally collide with Earth, triggering ...

These storms can disrupt power grids and even trigger auroras in lower latitudes, also known as the aurora borealis or the ...

John Sedgwick of VDE Americas examines evidence that hail stow protocols on PV power plants are successfully protecting them ...

A powerful X1.8 solar flare erupted on January 4, 2025, and was recorded at its peak—7:48 a.m. ET—by NOAA’s Solar Ultraviolet ...

The sector’s problems began after a round of capacity expansion in 2021, after President Xi Jinping unveiled the country’s ...

Coronal holes are cooler, darker regions in the sun's corona, as described by NOAA. These areas allow solar wind to escape at higher speeds. When this wind interacts with Earth's magnetosphere, it can ...

triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful auroras. Here are 10 of our favorite solar outbursts this year. As a result, sunspots have constantly littered the sun's surface this year in ...