After several quiet weeks for the sun, Dec. 8 saw an X-class solar flare erupt. Displays of auroras could be possible in its wake.

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

blue and violet. The X-class solar flare erupted from the surface of the sun on Sunday, reaching its peak around 4:06 am ET. It was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), or a huge ...

Superflares are extremely strong solar flares – explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares. Why worry? "A new study of 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that ...