NASA has issued a major geostorm alert after detecting intense solar activity that could impact Earth’s satellites, ...

New Brunswick is trying out additional professional learning days for teachers across 37 anglophone schools starting this fall. The new calendar will see up to 10 professional days incorporated into ...

Two men live and work in very different worlds — one above the earth, in the dust and machines of an opencast pit; the other ...

For traders, the logic went like this: more military escalation meant an ever-higher risk premium. By closing the Strait of ...

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An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

In May 2024, the largest solar flare since 2017 was detected, ranking at an X-8.7 magnitude. Then in 2025, a flare May 13 was classified as an X-1.2 , and another the next day was listed as an X-2.7.

NASA reported sunspot region 4114 unleashed a powerful X1.2-class solar flare on June 17, disrupting shortwave radio communication, especially over the Pacific, including Hawaii. Frequencies below ...

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated rapid spatiotemporal vertical electric currents (VECs) ...

X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar flare. Tuesday's event ranked as an X1.2, placing it at the lower end of the X-scale, but still strong enough to cause disruptions.

An Earth-facing sunspot has turned into a prolific flare factory, firing off multiple powerful M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours, along with several minor C-class eruptions.