causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The culprit? A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday ...

Taylor Cameron, a space weather forecaster at the Canadian Hazards Information Service, told Global News it’s difficult to predict specifically when a solar flare can erupt and which part of ...

MORE: It's cold outside, what happened to global ... to the solar cycle, in which more sunspots with intense magnetic activity occur during the peak. STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images The rapid warming ...

(NEXSTAR) — A massive solar flare — the ... NASA notes that they can also cause “global transmission problems and world-wide blackouts.” At an X5, Sunday’s flare was much smaller than ...

The strongest category of solar flares ... poles small radiation doses," said the agency. "X flares also have the potential to create global transmission problems and worldwide blackouts." ...

[Related: Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA.] But these occurrences are still an increasing cause for concern given how dependent modern society is on global satellite communications.

Getty Solar flares have disrupted GPS and radio signals and even triggered global blackouts. While their impact is often exaggerated, new research suggests solar flares may be more damaging than ...

They also have the possibility of creating global transmission problems and world-wide blackouts. How strong were the recent solar flares? The two solar flares that struck the Earth on Wednesday ...

The sun unleashed another strong X-class solar flare overnight, stronger than the one that occurred on Tuesday — an X2.7, the strongest so far this year. X-class flares are the strongest and ...

Officials said on Tuesday that the sun just emitted another major solar flare – and that it's the strongest one so far in the current solar cycle. The latest flare peaked just before 1 p.m. ET ...