There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

Astrophysicists Discover a Novel Method for Hunting the First Stars May 9, 2024 — A recent study has discovered ... Comprehensive List of Slow-Building Solar Flares Jan. 31, 2024 — Although ...

CMEs are supercharged plasma bubbles that get hurled off into space following powerful solar flare eruptions. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while ...

Not all solar flares are easy to see ... animal behavior and paleontology. His recent work on the solar maximum won "best space submission" at the 2024 Aerospace Media Awards and was shortlisted ...

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and NASA satellites have been monitoring recent activity of strong solar flares, which originate from sunspot regions. “A flurry of activity ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter transforms solar flares into sound New way to study solar activity via audio and visuals Solar maximum ...

Solar flares are categorized by their peak brightness ... Otherwise the plasma will simply stream by, scarcely perturbing our planet. The recent activity doesn’t surprise scientists who have ...

The Sun sometimes coughs up solar flares, which occur when the star’s magnetic field twists and sends a burst of energy and ...

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, kicked off in 2024, allowing an unusually high number of powerful X-class flares to explode from our home star. | Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL The number ...