The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

Transformers, critical components of these grids, can overheat and fail under the strain ... systems during a solar storm. High-energy particles from solar flares can disable satellite electronics ...

Elon Musk has said that the powerful geomagnetic storm hitting Earth right now is putting Starlink satellites under ...

The sun unleashed a strong X2 solar flare on Sunday; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an alert stating radio blackouts can occur, indicating a slight chance for ...

The spacecraft recorded the first-ever image of a solar flare ‘kernel.’ This rare observation was made in the lower solar atmosphere. The captured image shows the phenomenon in the photosphere ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research career." India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured ...