The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.
At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...
A powerful X1.8 solar flare erupted on January 4, 2025, and was recorded at its peak—7:48 a.m. ET—by NOAA’s Solar Ultraviolet ...
The northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact ...
On January 3, the Sun unleashed a powerful X1.2 solar flare, the first one in 2025, causing radio blackouts in parts of South ...
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the blast that caused "a strong shortwave radio blackout over South America," ...
The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...
The Northern Lights forecast is looking up in the wake of a series of several large solar X-ray flares, with the nights of ...
The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's ...
MacPhail’s interest in the night sky began when he heard President John F. Kennedy’s speech in 1962 that the United States would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. MacPhail’s parents ...
Minor-to-moderate radio blackouts due to solar flare activity are also likely through Sunday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.