Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

decreasing the chance of them hitting Earth." Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you ...

The storm arrives after days of solar flares that reportedly sent bursts ... Significantly' Lowers the Odds of 2024 YR4 Asteroid Hitting Earth in 2032 Chance of a Recently-Discovered Asteroid ...

Aug. 5, 2024 — A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry ... of exactly when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth. Scientists say ...

The lights are seen after a strong geomagnetic storm hit the Earth, which is expected to ... agencies observed six of the largest X-class solar flares erupting between May 8 and 10.

The event follows reports of at least seven massive solar flares or earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) from a sunspot cluster 16 times the diameter of Earth. These solar eruptions cause ...

The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar ... C flares and while plasma from the flare didn’t hit Earth ...