The strongest solar flare of 2025 so far has been unleashed by the Sun, causing radio blackouts over southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The Sun had quite an active year in 2024, sending ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The culprit? A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday morning (May 14), sending charged particles and plasma hurtling toward Earth. And experts warn ...

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 ...

A series of the most intense type of solar flares, known as X-class flares, have released from the sun this week. The flares also coincided with coronal mass ejections on Tuesday. Coronal mass ...