The strongest solar flare of 2025 so far has been unleashed by the Sun, causing radio blackouts over southeast Asia, Europe, ...

A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The culprit? A fiery X2.7-class ...

Not all solar flares are easy to see. In early March, a hidden eruption on the far side of the sun launched a massive CME that hurled right into Mercury. Images of plasma emerging from the sun's ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, with the biggest ones having as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.

NASA explains: "Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s ...

The solar filament caught by aurora chaser Vincent Ledvina, stretches over a million kilometres in length as it begins its journey away from the Sun.

There's another treat in the new SOHO imagery as well: If you look to the left of the solar disk, you can see a bright white ball, which is the planet Mercury ... them was an X flare — the ...

Solar Orbiter was able to see "several of the flares from this monster active ... storms as they billow across interplanetary space. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has a much weaker ...

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's ...

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury ... to flare into brightness." Sponsor Message For those hoping to see a reunion with Pluto, which was considered the solar ...