The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of the flare in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage courtesy: NAS ...

This Christmas Day, the skies may add to the festive cheer with a display of auroras, thanks to a blob of charged particles enroute to deliver a "glancing blow" to our planet following a powerful ...

As Earth completes yet another full orbit around the Sun, an encroaching storm is expected to bathe the planet in a glorious ...

The frequency of occurrence of solar flare activity varies with the 11-year solar cycle, and as we are at a particularly ...

"The sun has really stepped up over the past few days, with frequent solar flares including a strong X-class event!" He added: "A selection of these flares produced Earth-directed eruptions ...

Powerful eruptions from the sun are likely to interact with Earth's atmosphere on New Year's Eve, causing auroras in some ...

Some of the flares also hurtled two coronal mass ejections ... scientists have warned that we could be at higher risk for more powerful solar storms — up to G5. These bursts of electromagnetic ...

Superflares, however, are much more powerful than typical solar flares, emitting up to 10,000 times more radiation. And across the cosmos, these events might occur much more frequently than ...

Solar storms might light up New York skies with the Northern Lights this New Year’s Eve! Here’s when and where to watch for ...