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

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

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the blast that caused "a strong shortwave radio blackout over South America," ...

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 ...

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

The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning. The X-class solar flare peaked at an X.12 at 6:40 a.m. EST (1140 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 3), releasing a blast of ...

The highest-class solar flare, this year’s first, occurred on Friday, the Moscow-based Institute of Applied Geophysics ...

Sunspots AR3664 and AR3663 have been erupting with X- and M-class solar flares. Both sunspots are Earth-facing and could potentially deliver a solar storm. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured ...

The center said this activity was M-class, or medium level. A strong X-class solar flare is seen on Friday morning bursting out of the sun’s upper left quadrant. The flare was captured by NOAA ...