The storm is also responsible for pushing the aurora farther south, giving some people across the southern U.S. a rare chance to see the northern lights.

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

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

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

NASA researchers show that artificial intelligence can anticipate solar flare buildups by tracking subtle changes across the ...

The Sun has recently produced two colossal X-class solar flares that disrupted radio signals across large swaths of the globe, just as Americans are still parsing memories of nationwide cell outages ...

Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...

Under the current forecast, the northern lights may be visible across much of the northern half of the United States, and ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

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 ...

Solar flares can be many times the size of Earth and can damage things like satellites. A new study suggests that eruptions from the sun can be even hotter than researchers thought. Solar flares are ...

A major flare-up affected an aircraft’s data and control; the solution was so easy that it almost makes no sense.