We explain this extraordinary phenomenon—and why solar flares and coronal mass ejections go together like spots on Dalmatians ...

It's been a busy year on the sun, as it officially entered the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle of activity, known as solar ...

The sun recently hurled two coronal mass ejections toward Earth. The first is expected to reach us on Tuesday sparking aurora ...

Space further noted that solar flares released by the Sun can also leave amazing auroras to see in some regions. 12:33 AM MST - Wrote down dream about seeing something related to @X. It seemed ...

This matters because we use a lot of technology like satellites, GPS, and power grids. A big solar flare could mess all of that ... then we will see more frequent solar superflares than we had ...

Sunspot AR3869 erupted with an X3.3-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks. Footage ...

And if one happens, it could fry our communications satellites and earth-bound power grid. "We ... hit the Earth? If a solar superflare ever strikes Earth, the first thing to hit us will be ...

As the last big solar storm to hit Earth was 165 years ago, we might be in line ... methods for detecting flares with increased sensitivity.” How much this tells us about the sun’s flaring ...

The northern lights may be visible along a stretch of northern states Tuesday night, and a recent solar flare could heavily disrupt ... Breaking News Text Alerts: We’re launching text message ...

Superflares are extremely strong solar flares – explosions ... “Instead, however, we can monitor the behavior of thousands of stars very similar to the sun over short periods of time. This helps us to ...