After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...

After an X-class solar flare erupted, shortwave radio blackouts were detected across the Americas — the sunlit side of Earth at the time. These disruptions, common during intense solar activity, occur ...

Saturday night’s northern lights display follows “strong” radio blackouts on Friday, an event that NOAA said briefly ...

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the sun’s surface, sometimes followed by a bubble of magnetized plasma particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME). If they happen to spray out in ...

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...

During solar storms, there are more explosions — or solar flares — ejected from the sun ... according to a 2022 study in the same journal, and a 2021 study in EP Europace, respectively.

The sun unleashed a strong X1.1 solar flare on Friday, March 28, as scientists continue to monitor the possibilities of coronal mass ejections, which can ultimately lead to geomagnetic storms ...

Credit: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams, helioviewer.org The sun has once again unleashed a powerful solar flare, continuing its streak of intense activity. On April 1 ...