Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.

“Here comes the sun” never sounded so ominous. The sun is putting on a superheated fireworks display. Our solar system’s ...

The Sun has unleashed a quartet of strong solar flares, which could herald a wild week of space weather. It all kicked off at ...

A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...

Sun solar flares disrupted parts of Earth this week after a highly active sunspot unleashed the strongest eruptions seen so ...

A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption.

The Sun has hurled a rare sequence of three major eruptions toward Earth, a triple blast that is now driving the most intense ...

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible surface of the Sun, along with optical stops and filters that are ...

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the ...

This illustration lays a depiction of the sun's magnetic fields over an image of the sun captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange press ...

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.