Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

this particular cluster of sunspots is drawing concerns about solar flares. While the sunspots were first visible from Mars, the sun has rotated to now be seen from Earth. Now called AR3576 ...

In the aftermath of a one-two punch of solar flares hitting the Earth, experts warn that earthlings are unprepared for more ...

Meanwhile, AR4046 isn't the only sunspot region drawing attention ... to fully rotate to face Earth, has been crackling with activity, consistently firing off solar flares. Space weather ...

The latest X-class solar flare — the most powerful type the sun can produce — exploded from sunspot AR3842 at around 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday (Oct. 3). The flare had a magnitude of at least X9 ...

A powerful solar flare exploded on Tuesday, caused by a sunspot three times the size of the Earth. The flare sent radiation that interfered with Earth's radio signals. There have been a series of ...

"We've been able to show, for the very first time, that the sun's flare pulsations and Earth's atmosphere were pulsing in ...