Earth faced its most violent solar assault of 2026 when an X-class flare erupted from the sun's surface on January 18, ...

Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets ...

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

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

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

Forecasters at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center monitored a solar flare lasting for hours on Sunday. The Coronal Mass ...

Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...

By tracing solar flare gamma rays, scientists gain new insight into particle behavior that shapes space weather forecasts.

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

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...

A rare solar storm, the strongest in over 20 years, disrupted signals and lit skies with vivid auroras worldwide, raising ...

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