The flare was even bigger than a previous one that triggered May's global aurora storm. On Tuesday (July 23), Europe's Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft witnessed an extremely powerful X14 class ...

A gargantuan solar flare detected being flung out of the sun on July 23 reached an X14 class, making it the strongest flare of this solar cycle so far. Thankfully for us, the flare emerged from ...

2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's outermost layers. If confirmed, the findings could help scientists better ...

Later-stage solar flares could be more disruptive to communication systems than previously thought, according to new research ...

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. The most powerful solar flare seen in nearly twenty years and the strongest of the current solar cycle erupted from our local ...

Social media was shocked at the sight of a red triangle around the moon during totality last Monday, with even mainstream media outlets reporting that a "solar flare" was seen. Over 40 million ...

Earth could be showered in dangerous solar flares from the sun that could potentially wreak havoc to vital services and could even cause blackouts that have already hit Australia in recent days ...

Like the number of sunspots, the occurrence of solar flares follows the approximately 11-year solar cycle. But as the current ...

As the Sun spits out more ... had the capacity to measure flares’ power. However, the effects it triggered, including electrocuting telegraph operators, make clear that this was on a much ...

Two recent studies published in The Astrophysical Journal discuss findings regarding solar flare properties and a new classification index and the sun's magnetic field, specifically what's called ...

but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range from A, B, C, M, and X with a zero to nine scale in ...

A sunspot so big it rivals the gigantic sunspot responsible for the Carrington Event in 1859 has unleashed another X-class solar flare, triggering radio blackouts on Earth. On March 28 ...