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

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

Like other technology-driven global governance challenges, the longer the United States delays preventive and mitigating efforts, the less dominant its position ... (such as solar flares), or ...

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

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

On Oct. 3, 2024, an X9 magnitude solar flare — the most powerful of the current cycle — erupted from the sun, launching a CME directly at Earth. (Image credit: NASA/SDO) The effects of the ...

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.

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now ...

STIX captured the location and size of X-rays emitted by solar flares, which are now represented with those blue circles, while the EUI images showcase the sun's outer atmosphere in yellow.