The region was not considered a major concern by space weather specialists, and yet it produced a large M4-class solar flare ...

The Sun has just unleashed an M5-class solar flare, a powerful burst of radiation that signals a clear uptick in solar activity as the current cycle heads toward its peak. While this event is not the ...

The alignment of the Sun and Earth during the spring and autumn equinoxes can slightly increase activity, known as the ...

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...

Activity on the sun is not constant; it varies along a cycle of about 11 years. The peak of this solar cycle — called solar maximum — is when sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...

The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been taken by the world's largest solar telescope. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports, arts & entertainment, state ...

Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. The researchers used Flemish supercomputers and a new ...

The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been taken by the world's largest solar telescope. Record-breaking images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii reveal a flare four ...