On Tuesday, the sun launched its largest solar flare in seven years and the largest of the ongoing 11-year solar cycle. It marks the culmination of an excessively busy period for our closest star.

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at ...

Earthlings have reported spotting solar flares during Monday's total eclipse. The sun on Monday was expected to be at the height of its activity during its 11 year solar cycle also known as its ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation that form in areas where loops of magnetic field curl through the solar atmosphere.

The biggest solar flare since 2017 just launched off the sun Energy from the eruption could cause minor geomagnetic storming on Earth and the northern lights in the ...

Introduction to Solar Flares Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's surface. They occur when intense magnetic energy that has built up in the ...

A powerful burst of energy on New Year's Eve created the largest solar flare that has been detected since 2017, but scientists say not to be alarmed.

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named 3856, is facing Earth and has developed a volatile type of magnetic field ...

After causing the dazzling waves of aurora borealis this weekend, our Sun isn’t done yet: The strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle occurred Tuesday afternoon, according to the ...

Stock image of a solar flare (main) and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the X3.3-class flare (inset). This flare triggered radio blackouts across the Asia-Pacific region.

Earlier this spring, NASA also captured footage of a rare quadruple “super-sympathetic” solar flare which astronomers warned could pose similar electronic issues.

What is a solar flare? Solar flares are caused by the Sun’s magnetic fields, which are strongest in the dark areas called sunspots. When inactive, these fields look like loops. However, when the ...