"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

"threaded" with magnetic field lines. A solar flare is visible with just the normal eight-minute light delay between Earth and the Sun, while a CME takes two to three days to get here. Solar ...

Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it ...

The northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact ...

NASA monitors the South Atlantic Anomaly, a growing magnetic field disturbance affecting satellites and spacecraft.

Initially, it wasn't clear if these CMEs would reach Earth due to the flare's location on the Sun. "These explosions carry hot gas and magnetic fields away from the sun, and many of them just go out ...

X-class flares are the strongest category of 'solar flares,' which are bursts of light ... resulting in a powerful magnetic reconnection between the interplanetary magnetic field heading south and the ...

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's ...