Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets ...

Aurora alert! The colossal solar storm could impact and trigger impressive northern lights.

Federal forecasters are warning that a powerful X-class solar flare could trigger strong radio blackouts and strain power ...

A NOAA forecast has Northern Lights visible in northern U.S. states overnight on Monday, Jan. 19 through Tuesday, Jan. 20, as ...

An X-class solar flare has produced an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, increasing solar activity and raising the likelihood of geomagnetic impacts within 24 hours.

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...

NOAA confirmed an X-class solar flare originating from Active Region 4341 on the Sun on Sunday, Jan. 18.

NASA reported a significant X-class solar flare, specifically an X1.9 event, on January 18, which was captured by its Solar ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

STUNNING Northern Lights could fill the night sky over the UK tonight after a powerful mass was splurted from the sun. A ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A New Mexico State University (NMSU) astronomy Ph.D. student, who was leading a data cataloging ...