During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...

A NOAA forecast has Northern Lights visible in northern U.S. states overnight on Monday, Jan. 19 through Tuesday, Jan. 20, as ...

Aurora alert! The colossal solar storm could impact and trigger impressive northern lights.

The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.

The most powerful solar flare of 2026 so far is racing toward Earth, riding on the heels of a historic radiation storm and threatening fresh radio blackouts just as power grids and satellites are ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

Solar flares are characterized by intense bursts of energy and radiation from the Sun’s surface. In a matter of just a few ...

A powerful flare unleashed a severe solar storm that caused auroras and GPS disruptions on Earth.

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...