NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...

Space, with its vastness and beauty, also hides potential threats that could spell disaster for humanity. While many cosmic ...

Solar activity is forecasted to have a chance of minor to moderate soalr flares through Thursday July 24 with a slight chance ...

Solar flares and other solar activity, such as solar storms, are only expected to become more common by 2025 as the Sun reaches the height of its 11-year cycle, known as the solar maximum.

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It caused a shortwave radio blackout across North America, with a loss of signal ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Solar flares and other solar activity, such as solar storms, are only expected to become more common by 2025 as the Sun reaches the height of its 11-year cycle, known as the solar maximum.

At 12:02 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, a massive X-class solar flare — the strongest kind — launched off the sun. It was the most intense of the sun’s current 11-year cycle, and the most ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — as seen in the bright flash in the upper right portion of the image — on March 31, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) ...

On April 8, there was just one minor C-class solar flare that ended several hours before totality began anywhere in the U.S., and it did not launch a CME, according to SpaceWeatherLive.com.

Solar flares are categorized as small C-class flares, medium-sized M flares and major X-class flares. Each class also has subcategories from 1 to 9, so an M9 flare is stronger than an M4.

Solar flares are closely related to another solar phenomenon called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. Where there's a flare, there's likely to be a CME, just like where there's smoke there's fire.