Scientists can usually spot coronal mass ejections before they affect Earth—but this one snuck past coronagraphs and ...

Ejections from the Sun could cause the northern lights to be visible further south this week.

Discover what happens during a solar flare: sun eruptions, coronal mass ejection impacts, and space weather effects on Earth ...

Get your cameras ready, because it could be time, once again, for the U.S. to see the northern lights. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Space Weather Prediction Center said ...

The aurora could be visible from some northern states on Thursday, forecasters said.

A powerful M8.1 solar flare sent a full-halo coronal mass ejection toward Earth, and scientists expect it to trigger strong G3 geomagnetic storm levels on Tuesday. Forecasts show the Kp index rising ...

On Saturday, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) noted that an M8.1 solar flare, “an eruption of energy from the ...

Earth is at the mercy of the Sun’s changing temperament. Solar storms are revving up, which makes a new exploration of the Sun’s activity more relevant than ever. In new research published Thursday in ...

The Sun’s magnetic fields are the fundamental agents driving a wide array of dynamic phenomena in the corona, from flares to jets and the acceleration of the solar wind. Recent advances in ...

For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the Sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past. The resulting ...

Extreme stellar flares have always captivated astronomers, but observing such phenomena on other stars had remained an ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...