Flickering coronal "loops" on the Sun are warning signs of a coming solar eruption, paving the way for better space weather ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

The event, described by scientists as "very rare, beautiful, and even a bit strange," involved a cold prominence rich in ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

Sunspot AR3234 blasted an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: NASA/SDO/Helio Viewer | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Mu ...

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

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, kicked off in 2024, allowing an unusually high number of powerful X-class flares to explode from our home star. | Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL The number ...

and X classes) of solar flares during different solar cycle phases from 1996 to 2019 covering the solar cycles 23 and 24. During this period, a total of 19,126 solar flares were observed regardless ...

The Sun regularly produces solar flares, which are energetic outbursts of electromagnetic radiation. Sometimes, these flares are accompanied by plasma in events known as coronal mass ejections. Both ...

All of the activity sparks solar storms, specifically solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which hurl plasma and magnetic material into space. When that material collides with Earth’s ...

Solar activity is reckoned to be at a 23-year high. As if on cue, X-class solar flares on the sun — which are often followed by CMEs — occurred again on Friday, Jan. 3 and Saturday ...

The display aurora came in the wake of forecasts for northern and Midwest U.S. states after a flurry of solar flares from the sun's surface in the last few days of 2024, most notably an X-class ...