It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...

Coronal mass ejections when aimed at Earth, they collide with our magnetic field within days, setting off geomagnetic storms ...

Sunspot AR3089 erupted with a series of m-class flares that culminated with an M7-class flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | foo ...

The Sun may appear steady, but its activity is unpredictable. Powerful solar storms can disrupt satellites, GPS, and power ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X1.1-class solar flare in multiple wavelengths. See time-lapse footage of the ...

Could the expected solar flares bring a greater chance of seeing the northern lights? Sophia Herod takes a look.

The 500,000-mile wide hole has cracked open the sun's atmosphere, leaving a gap over 62 times the diameter of Earth from ...

Flickering coronal "loops" on the Sun are warning signs of a coming solar eruption, paving the way for better space weather ...

The 2024 event was a great, and unusual opportunity to test the AI capability to predict solar activity. The chief objective ...

2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's outermost layers. If confirmed, the findings could help scientists better predict ...

Solar flares are violent outbursts of electromagnetic radiation that shoot from the sun when invisible magnetic field lines at the sun's surface get twisted up until they eventually snap. These ...