Solar flares might sound like something from a sci-fi movie, but they are very real and have a significant impact on our ...

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

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A storm as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859 might cause some issues, says a reader, but modern planes have a lot of safeguards built in. You should be more worried about "superflares" ...

Indian scientists report flareless coronal mass ejection observations from the Sun using VELC instrument on Aditya-L1 mission ...

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...

Aug. 5, 2024 — A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares ... as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) interacted with the ambient solar wind in the circumsolar ...

As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.

A cycle is traditionally measured by the rise and fall in the number of sunspots, but it also coincides with increases in solar flares, coronal mass ejections, radio emissions and other forms of ...