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 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.

MOSCOW, January 3. /TASS/. The highest-class solar flare, this year’s first, occurred on Friday, the Moscow-based Institute of Applied Geophysics reported. "At 2:39 p.m. Moscow time (11:39 a.m. GMT) ...

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

X9.0 solar flare: Largest of 2024 Powerful X-class solar flares recorded Intense solar storms spark auroras worldwide ...

Early in the morning on Wednesday, May 8, the Sun blasted out an extreme X-class solar flare. In its wake, an enormous CME was seen erupting directly towards Earth. At least two more coronal mass ...

The Earth-bound M8.9 solar ... M8.9 flare caused a temporary disturbance in radio signals over Africa and the South Atlantic Ocean that lasted about 15 minutes, NOAA said. Three more M-class ...

In 2024, the sun launched over 50 X-class solar flares — the most powerful type of solar flare — at Earth. The video above shows observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Atmospheric ...

On Oct. 3, the sun unleashed the most powerful solar flare of the current solar cycle yet. The X-class flare — the most powerful type the sun is capable of producing — reached a magnitude of ...

Scientists divide solar flares into five classes, according to their peak brightness in X-ray wavelengths. In order from smallest / least intense to most intense and troublesome: A-class flares ...