These intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation can affect Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere within minutes. Small solar flares are capable to cause communications blackouts.

However, it was not immediately clear in 1859 that the sun and Earth really could be linked, and many thought that the solar flare and later ... If the magnetic direction does not align, there ...

It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...

Could the expected solar flares bring a greater chance of seeing the northern lights? Sophia Herod takes a look.

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...

Researchers have made a potentially crucial breakthrough in solar science that could help predict solar flares with greater ...

Coeur d’Alene Press if possible I would like your weather writers to write an extensive article on how much effect the Earth’s axis has on our planet. I understand it takes 10,000 years for the Earth ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

"The concern is if such a flare did ever affect the earth directly ... story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about solar flares? Let us know via science@newsweek.com.

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar ... flare) to R5 (an X20 flare). The sunspot in question is facing ...