Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

The Sun fired off six X-class flares in the first four days of February 2026, a burst of extreme activity spanning roughly ...

The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.

This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star.

A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...

Multiple M-class and X-class solar flares erupted within 24 hours as an active sunspot released intense radiation affecting Earth’s upper atmosphere and radio communications.

Space weather has seen a flurry of activity this week. An explosive solar flare that erupted Tuesday, just two days after the ...

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown ...

A newly active area on the sun is responsible for dozens of eruptions known as solar flares, including back-to-back X-class ...

India braces as the Sun unleashes powerful flares, threatening satellites, communications, and power grids. ISRO monitors ...