Related: Where and when to see the northern lights in 2024 CMEs ... and Africa were a result of the radiation from the solar flare reaching Earth and ionizing the upper atmosphere upon arrival.

Aditya-L1, a new solar observatory launched in 2023, wasted no time proving its worth. Just a few months after it was ...

Solar flares with ratings between X5 and X8.7 impacted Earth in May 2024, allowing the auroras to be seen as far south as Florida and the Caribbean. In 2003, a similarly powerful event, ...

A powerful solar flare has been hurled out of the Sun, and could cause disruption on Earth. The flare comes ... as the northern lights that might be visible at lower latitudes.

The storm arrives after days of solar flares that reportedly sent ... There are three areas, both on earth and in space, that could see effects from geomagnetic storms: power systems, spacecraft ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm aimed at Earth could disrupt technology and bring a stunning ... field from the outermost part ...

AR4048, a still-emerging sunspot that has yet to fully rotate to face Earth, has been crackling with activity, consistently firing off solar flares. Space weather forecasters are closely ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri.

A pair of solar storms are targeting the Earth, and they could push the northern lights into Ohio this week. See the map.

Nearly a dozen states in the northern U.S. may have another opportunity to see ... solar flares or coronal mass ejections. Electrons from these events interact with oxygen and nitrogen in the ...

A blast of charged particles from the Sun - a G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storm - is currently sweeping past our planet. Auroras ...