It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...

As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space ... reduce the accuracy of GPS signals, induce dangerous currents in power grids and increase the radiation exposure of astronauts.

Predicting these solar storms has always been tricky. But a recent study led by Sabrina Guastavino from the University of ...

those solar flares increase, as do the changes of geomagnetic storms. These storms can cause several issues with GPS navigation systems, satellites, and even spacecraft. We’ve recently seen old ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

A chance for millions of people to see an aurora this weekend also brings the risk of radio and GPS disruptions for ... of at least seven massive solar flares or earth-directed Coronal Mass ...

Social media was shocked at the sight of a red triangle around the moon during totality last Monday, with even mainstream media outlets reporting that a "solar flare" was seen. Over 40 million ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter was in position to take a direct hit from the flare at the time and it provides some hint of what we might have experienced had we been in the line of fire.

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is ... all gone in favor of GPS. Would a disruption ...

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the ...

reduce the accuracy of GPS signals, induce dangerous currents in power grids and increase the radiation exposure of astronauts. Solar flares are sudden, intense bursts of energy—often in the ...