Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

“Here comes the sun” never sounded so ominous. The sun is putting on a superheated fireworks display. Our solar system’s ...

A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense ...

The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years ...

The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.

Space weather has seen a flurry of activity this week. An explosive solar flare that erupted Tuesday, just two days after the ...

A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...

Space scientists have announced that the Sun has fired four massive solar flares. The outbursts were captured by NASA’s Solar ...

In a dramatic escalation of solar activity, the sun has unleashed an X8.3 flare — 2026’s strongest yet — causing radio ...

The sunspot region 4366 fired off dozens of powerful solar flares in 24 hours, including the single strongest flare since 2024. Auroras are possible later this week.

The sun released three X-class solar flares on Sunday evening, with the largest being an X8.1 flare, the third largest of ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...