Solar flares are classified based on their strength and fall into five designated categories: A, B, C, M and X. An X-class solar flare is the most intense type of solar flare and can produce as ...

Heads up aurora chasers ... from a powerful solar blast on March 1 is racing toward Earth, with the potential to spark a ...

Scientists have raised concerns about the potential disruption to global communication infrastructure, including the internet, due to increased solar storms and ... Shakes up to 50 years of ...

In simple terms, this storm is a disturbance of Earth's upper atmosphere. It is caused in part by solar flares, which NASA describes "an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of ...

The planet is "at a point in its orbit when it's closest to the Sun, which heats up the atmosphere." That proximity can "cause billowing dust storms to blanket the surface." This year's solar ...

Last May, an advanced critical long-range radar system used by China to detect stealth aircraft and ballistic missiles was temporarily disabled by a massive solar storm – a disruption that set ...

In 2003, a similarly powerful event, dubbed the "Halloween Solar Storm," affected spacecraft ... What space experts will be monitoring over the coming weeks is whether sunspot region AR4046 ...