Air travel’s worst case scenario has arrived in a form few passengers ever imagined: not terrorism or mechanical failure, but a blast of extreme solar radiation that has corrupted digital flight ...

The Sun has entered one of its most volatile moods in years, hurling a torrent of powerful flares and charged particles into ...

The "severe" solar storm in effect has the potential to trigger the northern lights, causing a stunning display of colors visible from parts of the U.S. Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of ...

Research analyzing surface solar radiation data across the past three and coming three decades finds Europe has gotten sunnier at an average rate of 2.4 W per decade. This increase in solar radiation ...

In May 2024, an epic solar storm rattled Earth so powerfully that its effects were felt even at the bottom of the ocean. In the wake of a torrent of flare activity on the Sun, our planet was buffeted ...

Multiple M-class and X-class solar flares erupted within 24 hours as an active sunspot released intense radiation affecting ...

Solar flares are characterized by intense bursts of energy and radiation from the Sun’s surface. In a matter of just a few minutes, the material is heated to many millions of degrees. It produces a ...

Colorful auroras could dazzle skywatchers again on Monday night amid a severe geomagnetic storm and what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said was the largest solar radiation storm ...

A new study suggests that explosive events in space have the potential to temporarily switch off the natural shield that protects us from harmful solar radiation. By Katrina Miller On Oct. 9, 2022, ...