Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

A new solar storm is approaching. In 2025 there were several, but they did not have serious consequences. Now, the US ...

Editor's note: This article was updated on Nov. 12 at 11 a.m. after two of the three incoming CMEs hit Earth overnight. The combined solar outbursts triggered a severe G4 geomagnetic storm, resulting ...

With the Sun still in an active phase there could be more spectacular Northern light displays in the year ahead.

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Thermal image of an eruption or flare on the surface of the ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class solar flares—an achievement rarely possible from Earth. Using the GREGOR ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

Nov. 5 (UPI) --A moderate solar flare might affect radio communications on Earth Wednesday after a pair of powerful solar flares disrupted radio communications in sunlit areas of the globe this week, ...

The sun has fired off not one but two colossal X-class solar flares in less than 12 hours, causing radio blackouts across the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption and marking a dramatic ...