The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.
A powerful solar storm lit skies far beyond the poles, revealing how Earth’s magnetic shield protects the planet during ...
Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...
Earth will be experiencing the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years today, according to the National Weather ...
A solar flare seen by the ESA's Solar Orbiter. Solar storms are semiregular events in which the sun belches gargantuan plumes of energized dust and gas towards the planet at speeds as fast as 2 ...
Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...
Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.
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 ...
Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west ...
As with all solar eclipses, astronomers strongly remind people to never look at the Sun without proper eye protection.