Sunspot 4317. The region was not considered a major concern by space weather specialists, and yet it produced a large ...

With the Sun still in an active phase there could be more spectacular Northern light displays in the year ahead.

Scientists have long studied the sun, our solar system’s life-giving star, trying to understand its behavior, solar flares, ...

A powerful M8.1 solar flare sent a full-halo coronal mass ejection toward Earth, and scientists expect it to trigger strong G3 geomagnetic storm levels on Tuesday. Forecasts show the Kp index rising ...

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) ...

What if scientists could predict northern and southern lights like they could an eclipse? What if they could tell you where and when to be outside, within a narrow window, to see these vibrant ...

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 ...