As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...

The X5.1-class eruption from sunspot AR4274 is this year's most powerful solar flare and Earth is in the firing line.

On 14 May 2025, the Sun erupted with the biggest flare we've seen all year. From the eastern limb of the Sun – that is, the left side – active sunspot region (AR) 4087 erupted in a huge, X2.7 solar ...

The British Geological Society is warning that the Earth is about to get hit by the most powerful solar storm in over two ...

Flares of this magnitude are not frequent,” noted officials at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, and this week the Sun has delivered two of them in rapid succession. On November 9, an X1.7 flare ...

A series of three powerful flares and associated explosions of solar material out across the Solar System have set Earth ...

The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet. A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe ...

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on Earth, ...

Skygazers are spotting the lights deeper into Canada, the U.S. and Europe because the sun is going through a major facelift. Every 11 years, its poles swap places, causing magnetic twists and tangles ...

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