A blazing X2.7-class solar flare erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday, hurling a scorching wave of plasma and charged particles straight at Earth. NASA/SDO.

A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

A solar flare erupting on June 19, causing the radio blackout. NASA / Solar Dynamics Observatory "When a CME arrives at Earth, it can produce some of the biggest geomagnetic storms and thus, some ...

The flare was even bigger than a previous one that triggered May's global aurora storm. On Tuesday (July 23), Europe's Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft witnessed an extremely powerful X14 class ...

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, with X-class the most intense. Today’s was classed as an X1.0 flare, which is half as intense as an X2.0 flare.

Strongest solar flare of 2025 erupts from sun, sparking radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East (video) Watch the sun unleash 600,000-mile-long eruption in fiery outburst (video) ...

In November 2016, astronomers watched a young star some 1,500 light-years away from Earth belch out an explosion of plasma and radiation that was roughly 10 billion times more powerful than any ...