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

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

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

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

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

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

The sun is putting on a show. On Sunday the star unleashed several strong and bright solar flares, including one of the most ...

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

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

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

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the ...