The Sun has unleashed a powerful solar flare, Nasa has said. The flare, designated X2.3, belongs to the most intense X class ...

The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...

Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal ...

The Sun’s activity is what gives us beautiful auroras – but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

Are the Northern Lights dangerous? Solar storms in May and October saw intense displays of aurora borealis across the U.S.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time-lapses of the flares in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage c ...

A small but mighty cluster of sunspots have made their biggest mark yet on Earth's magnetosphere—and on the radio signals ...

Solar Wind and Flares: Solar winds and flares add energy to the upper atmosphere, causing it to expand. This increases drag ...

As the Sun enters the peak of its 11-year-old solar cycle, such solar weather is likely to increase. However, flares of this strength are ‘generally not common, although not necessarily ...