Here’s how it works. The sun is far from quiet. Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field.

The NASA/ESA Solar & Heliospheric Observatory captured a 'butterfly-shaped' coronal mass ejection erupt from the sun. Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO | edited by Space.com's edited by Steve Spaleta House to ...

A festive auroral display may be put on for a lucky few when coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Detected by NOAA's GOES-16 satellite, the eruption raises questions about a potential coronal mass ejection, which could amplify auroras during New Year celebrations. While impactful, t ...

Solar flares are commonly accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CME), and thus CMEs display similar size distributions and waiting time distributions as solar flares do. However, some studies report ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most ...

Satellites in Earth orbit detected an X2.2 class solar flare early on Dec. 8, 2024, which could translate to aurora borealis in a few days — if there’s an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection ...

The lights, also known as the aurora borealis, are set to appear as a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) strikes Earth. Usually, the Northern Lights are only seen in the auroral oval - a ring of ...

Although forecasters had warned of a mild display of aurora, they hadn't foreseen what materialized — a coronal mass ejection clashing with Earth’s atmosphere to cause a G1 geomagnetic storm.