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

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

M-class flares may trigger brief radio blackouts, affecting the polar regions and minor radiation storms. Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized region of the sun's atmosphere ...

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

Solar flares are classified on a 4-class scale, and as the scale goes up in class, each flare is ten times stronger than the ...

An extended period of gusty winds is expected in the final days of 2024, with the return of Santa Ana winds on New Year's Day ...

MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. Scientists detected five powerful M-class solar flares on December 24, Russia’s Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics has told TASS. "On December 24, at around 3: ...

EST (0315 GMT on Dec. 26). Solar flares are ranked and categorized by their power on a 4-level classification scale, with M-class the second strongest to the beastly X-class at the top.

Solar flares are closely related to another solar ... as our equipment became sensitive enough to detect them. M-class flares are medium-sized, capable of causing minor radiation storms.

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 ...

"There have been multiple M-Class and X-Class solar flares in recent days that are forecast to make at least a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetosphere sometime over the next 48-72 hours between ...