The huge solar flare may be the last big explosion from the sun this year. The sun is not quite done with 2024.

An X-class solar flare erupted on December 29, 2023, sending a burst of solar energy toward Earth that may enhance auroras ...

The Northern Lights forecast is looking up in the wake of a series of several large solar X-ray flares, with the nights of ...

By historical definition, Solar Cycle 1 occurred between 1755 and 1766, placing the sun 's current cycle in Solar Cycle 25.

That title goes to an X9 solar flare on Oct. 3. It was the third largest solar flare since 2011 and the fifth largest since 2005. SWPC officials watched the X1.1. flare erupt with an instrument on ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of the flare in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage courtesy: NAS ...

But while the X1.1 solar flare was one of the most powerful type of flares possible, it wasn't the biggest solar flare of 2024. That title goes to an X9 solar flare on Oct. 3. It was the third largest ...

The sun is bidding farewell to 2024 with a bang—or rather several bangs. Our star produced three powerful flares on December ...

However, that burst of energy is only part of the problem, since large solar flares are often accompanied by events called coronal mass ejections. Professor Sean Elvidge, an expert on space ...

The science of the sun and its effects on the solar system is a sprawling discipline that expects a very exciting 2025 ...