Solar flares can send charged particles across vast distances and if they erupt while aimed our way, they can cause issues ...

The Sun appears to smile in hilarious cosmic pictures. A science spaceship captured the quirky grin earlier this month, and ...

On June 17, 2025, the Sun released a massive X1.2 solar flare that peaked at 5:49 p.m. ET, as confirmed by NASA’s Solar ...

The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different mainframe computers together across the country. Later, it evolved into the ...

The most powerful eruption of 2025 so far was observed last week, and caused a 10-minute period of 'degraded communications' for high-frequency radio systems in the Middle East.

A huge X-class solar flare has erupted from the Sun, causing radio blackouts across the globe after it peaked on May 14, according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center ...

Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun—can shoot out hazardous levels of energy strong enough to reach Earth’s atmosphere. Predicting solar flares ...

Space The sun may spit out giant solar flares more often than we thought. A survey of more than 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that “superflares” that are linked to bursts of radiation which ...

It is the most powerful solar flare since September 2017, when the sun emitted an X11.8 and X13.3 flare within a few days of each other. You may like ...

The Sun has started spooky season with a bang, letting loose on October 1 with a colossal flare and coronal mass ejection headed right for Earth. The flare clocked in at X7.1 – the second most ...

The sun also produces the flares and the coronal mass ejections that trigger geomagnetic storms and thus auroras here on Earth. So far this year, May has been the busiest month in the sun's Solar ...

The flare - deemed an X8.7, with the X-class denoting the most intense flares possible - came from the same region that triggered the geomagnetic storm and stunning display of auroras, or Northern ...