The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A giant black spot has appeared on the sun’s disk — and ...
A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named 3856, is facing Earth and has developed a volatile type of magnetic field ...