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 ...
The development of sustainable energy sources that can satisfy the world energy demand is one of the most challenging ...
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.
In December, the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft made the closest controlled approach to the sun of any manmade object.
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 sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.
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 northern lights could once again grace US skies over the coming days. A minor geomagnetic storm is projected to impact ...
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 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 ...
On January 3, the Sun unleashed a powerful X1.2 solar flare, the first one in 2025, causing radio blackouts in parts of South ...