Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...

Aurora alert! The colossal solar storm could impact and trigger impressive northern lights.

The sun recently erupted with a potent X-class solar flare, triggering a fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) that is ...

A coronal mass ejection, or CME, is a massive cloud of solar plasma and magnetic field that can be hurled into space ...

The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.

A powerful flare unleashed a severe solar storm that caused auroras and GPS disruptions on Earth.

A NOAA forecast has Northern Lights visible in northern U.S. states overnight on Monday, Jan. 19 through Tuesday, Jan. 20, as ...

OVRO-LWA radio data contrasts a quiet day (Sept. 29, 2025) with the hours after the X1.7-class flare recorded at 2:35 ET on Nov. 9. The type III radio bursts, shown in the radio dynamic spectrum ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...