Solar flares are classified based on their strength and fall into five designated categories: A, B, C, M and X. An X-class ...

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...

Traveling to a north-facing, high vantage point away from light pollution is the best bet to see the northern lights, ...

AR4048, a still-emerging sunspot that has yet to fully rotate to face Earth, has been crackling with activity, consistently firing off solar flares. Space weather forecasters are closely ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

If using a regular camera, National Geographic recommends using a wide-angle lens, an aperture or F-stop of four or less and ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare causes radio blackouts across the Americas. It was followed by a coronal mass ejection.

When sunspots produce a solar flare, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which are bursts of magnetized plasma emitted from the sun's corona, travel toward Earth ... the lights visible as far south ...

Proxima Centauri, a star four light-years from the sun, shoots out a violent solar flare in this artist's depiction ... even if it were otherwise an Earth doppelganger. "Our Sun’s activity ...

Solar flares with ratings between X5 and X8.7 impacted Earth in May 2024 ... Nasa says that during solar maximums, more visible sunspots, such as AR4046, lead to more frequent solar flares ...