Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

The Sun has entered one of its most volatile moods in years, hurling a torrent of powerful flares and charged particles into ...

The sun has just fired off an eruption so intense it ranks among the most powerful solar flares seen in three decades, a jolt ...

Space weather has seen a flurry of activity this week. An explosive solar flare that erupted Tuesday, just two days after the ...

The Sun released a strong solar flare on Tuesday, Feb. 3, following several eruptions in the preceding days, prompting ...

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

The sun released three X-class solar flares on Sunday evening, with the largest being an X8.1 flare, the third largest of ...

Solar flares are characterized by intense bursts of energy and radiation from the Sun’s surface. In a matter of just a few ...

The sun has continued to release X-class solar flares this week, but northern lights chances haven't increased. Here's why.

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...

NASA has reported a X4.2 solar flare, so what does it mean? We break down what a solar flare is and how it connects to the ...