At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...
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 ...
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.
The Sun is gearing up for its solar maximum in just a couple of years and that means more frequent and powerful solar flares. Which has a lot of people wondering, if there was a powerful solar storm ...
A erupted with M1 and M6 class solar flares. Watch the fireworks in these views from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO/Helio Viewer| edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: My Hal ...
The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.
MacPhail’s interest in the night sky began when he heard President John F. Kennedy’s speech in 1962 that the United States would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. MacPhail’s parents ...
The northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact ...
The Northern Lights forecast is looking up in the wake of a series of several large solar X-ray flares, with the nights of ...
On January 3, the Sun unleashed a powerful X1.2 solar flare, the first one in 2025, causing radio blackouts in parts of South ...
More strong solar storms are still expected throughout 2025 and potentially even into 2026, giving us a greater chance of ...