The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.

A powerful X1.8 solar flare erupted on January 4, 2025, and was recorded at its peak—7:48 a.m. ET—by NOAA’s Solar Ultraviolet ...

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

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated that such events occurred only every 3000 to 6000 years. The result, from ...

The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.

On January 3, the Sun unleashed a powerful X1.2 solar flare, the first one in 2025, causing radio blackouts in parts of South ...

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

Forecasts suggest that peak solar activity will make aurora borealis displays even more intense than usual in 2025. Here are ...

Solar flares are classified on a 4-class scale ... minor to moderate radio blackouts accompanying any additional activity from the active sunspot regions through the end of the weekend (Jan ...

More strong solar storms are still expected throughout 2025 and potentially even into 2026, giving us a greater chance of ...

Minor-to-moderate radio blackouts due to solar flare activity are also likely through Sunday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.