Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

The sun released over 50 X-class solar flares in 2024! Here we take a look at some of the best. It's been a busy year on the sun, as it officially entered the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle of ...

On Oct. 3, the sun unleashed the most powerful solar flare of the current solar cycle yet. The X-class flare — the most powerful type the sun is capable of producing — reached a magnitude of ...

New study reveals the potential for advance warning of powerful solar flares from the Sun, providing crucial hours to protect ...

While technical systems are expected to experience only moderate effects during the storm, the solar flare that triggered these CMEs caused a brief shortwave radio blackout over parts of Africa ...

The smoothed sunspot value, represented as the purple line on the plot below ... along with a higher likelihood of large solar flares and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, kicked off in 2024, allowing an unusually high number of powerful X-class flares to explode from our home star. | Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL The number ...

Researchers discover brightness fluctuations in coronal loops that could predict solar flares hours in advance.

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now ...

But experts now say that the planet could soon be hit by a solar flare more than 100 times more powerful and far more devastating. A solar flare is a huge explosion on the sun's surface which ...

Solar flares are categorized by their peak brightness in x-ray wavelengths, with X-class flares being the fiercest flashes. Our star’s December 29 activity included three such flares ...