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The Sun fired a staggering X1.9-class solar flare at the turn of the month, triggering a sudden, widespread radio blackout across Australia and large parts of southeast Asia and it seems like another ...

A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued after a powerful solar flare over the weekend. The solar flare peaked at 9:49 p.m. EST on Sunday, November 30, said NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which ...

A powerful X1.9 solar flare from new sunspot AR4299 triggered strong radio blackouts, as giant sunspot AR4294 rotates into view with more activity likely. The sun kicked off December with a bang, ...

There’s something about the night that stretches time, turning ordinary streets into endless ribbons of light. Shadows dance on the asphalt, the air hums with possibility and the road pulls you into a ...

The same active region of the sun that produced stunning auroras that were visible as far south as Mexico earlier this week has erupted again. On Friday the sun released a powerful, X4.0-class solar ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole flare thought to be the brightest and most distant discovered yet. Credit: Caltech / R. Hurt illustration A supermassive black hole tearing apart a ...

This glimpse of the northern lights was captured in Missouri on November 11, 2025. Smuckola, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons A massive solar flare unleashed November 11 was one of the strongest on ...

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...

Nov. 11 (UPI) --Scientists said the sun erupted Tuesday morning, unleashing a strong X5.1-class flare in an intense outburst, causing communications disruptions. It was the year's strongest solar ...

A flurry of activity solar activity this week produced a severe solar storm, sparking northern lights as far south as Florida on Tuesday night- just days after the sun unleashed its strongest solar ...

Over the last 36 hours, the sun has released two more X-class solar flares, providing for more chances of the northern lights this week. On both Sunday morning and Monday morning, the sun released an ...