The Sun has thrown out a powerful solar flare – and there is probably more to come. Our star is currently at the “solar maximum”, the most active part of the 11-year cycle over which it ...

Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun—can shoot out hazardous levels of energy strong enough to reach Earth’s atmosphere. Predicting solar flares, ...

The sun put on quite the spooktacular show on Halloween, firing off an X2.0 solar flare. A giant white flare, like an X bursts from the center of a fiery surface, blazed with reds and oranges in a ...

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 ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. A gargantuan solar flare detected being flung out of the sun on July 23 reached an X14 class, making it the strongest flare of ...

After causing the dazzling waves of aurora borealis this weekend, our Sun isn’t done yet: The strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle occurred Tuesday afternoon, according to the ...

The sun emitted another powerful solar flare Tuesday nearly one week after separate flares set in motion a severe solar storm that disrupted some technology and produced some mesmerizing northern ...

The sun started Sunday with a wild display, producing a strong M-Class flare and potentially causing radio blackouts. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction (SWPC) office said an impulsive M7.4 X-ray ...

as signals below 30 MHz vanished for potentially up to an hour following the flare's peak, leaving many without communication capabilities. Despite its position near the sun's western limb and not ...

The sun just let out a powerful solar flare — the most powerful since 2017, and among the most powerful recorded to date. It even affected communications on Earth, due to the effects of space ...