Tree rings record six known Miyake events — spikes in global radiation levels in the past. The sun, as long presumed, might ...

The sun is an incomprehensibly gigantic, constantly roiling nuclear furnace—but some days are even busier than others. Based ...

A powerful solar flare could potentially spark aurora borealis displays across the UK later this week, as the Met Office ...

Sunspot AR4366 has been very active with several flares recorded, the biggest of them being an X8.3-class solar flare. NOAA's ...

Talk about a heated situation. The sun unleashed two colossal solar flares within seven hours of each other this week, triggering radio blackouts across parts of Earth. Solar flares are strong, ...

For many of us, checking the weather is part of daily life. But, in an increasingly technology-dependent world, there is another kind of forecast we can't afford to ignore: space weather. Space ...

The northern lights may be visible this weekend after a flurry of activity on the sun, with an X-class solar flare and coronal mass ejections breaking a quiet period.

Our sun is a roiling mass of energy, with solar flares exploding on its surface, sending gas, plasma, and light that blasts across the solar system. When radiation from extra-powerful flares breaks ...

The sun has certainly woken up! It has fired off not one but two powerful X2.5 solar flares within just 7 hours.

Two strong solar flares erupted from the sun within 12 hours of each other, according to information from NASA's Solar ...