The Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) onboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite (launched on June 24, 2024) monitors the sun for hazardous space weather that could affect Earth. Classified as an X9.0 flare, it ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

Have you seen the Northern Lights? They're more than just pretty colors; when you see them in Pittsburgh, there's science ...

The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet. A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe ...

Waves of solar flares keep pouring out of the sun, sparking "rolling" radio blackouts across the world. Active sunspot regions on the sun's surface are responsible for the flares, which are classified ...

A sunspot on the surface of the sun has erupted with a powerful solar flare, triggering radio blackouts across the planet. The X3.3-class flare was flung out from AR3869 in the early hours of October ...

The sun has emitted a powerful solar flare that has the capability to interfere with technology on Earth. The explosive burst of radiation peaked on the evening of June 17, matching the intensity of ...

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Hillary K Grigonis An active sunspot could give photographers another reason to ...

Scientists at the University of St Andrews discovered ions in solar flares can hit 60 million°C—6.5 times hotter than thought ...