"We've been able to show, for the very first time, that the sun's flare pulsations and Earth's atmosphere were pulsing in ...

Sunspot AR3186 erupted with an X1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Sunspot AR3767 erupted with a X1.7-class solar flare, followed by an X1.1-class flare from sunspot AR3780. NASA's Solar ...

Space Weather Live says the new solar flare is an X2.2. That makes it the most powerful solar flare the Sun has unleashed in the past five years. X-Class solar flares are the strongest possible.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Some astronomers expect our Sun to enter its solar maximum in 2025, if not before.

The Sun experienced significant solar activity in 2024, with over 50 X-class solar flares recorded. These powerful flares, originating from active regions like AR 13664, were accompanied by ...

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A Carrington-class storm could ... explosions called solar flares. Such flares release the energy equivalent of hundreds of millions of megatons of TNT, spewing x-rays and gamma rays into space ...

NASA has released a new video of Earth's sun, capturing a giant 'orb' soaring past the blazing star. The footage has sparked ...

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

An X7.1 flare, ranking 26 of all time, was recorded Oct. 1. X-class solar flares are the largest, according to NASA. The classification system NASA uses ranges from A-class flares to B, C, M and then ...