Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.
A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...
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The sun just cracked open across 400,000 miles, fired 6 mega flares in 96 hours
The Sun fired off six X-class flares in the first four days of February 2026, a burst of extreme activity spanning roughly 400,000 miles of the solar disk. That stretch covers nearly half the Sun’s ...
A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with ...
Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.
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The Sun is stronger than our electric grid — and we are defenseless against it
Recent X8-class solar flare activity reveals critical weaknesses in America's power grid, where geomagnetic currents could destroy transformers and trigger prolonged blackouts.
An Arizona-based astrophotographer has pulled off what may be an unprecedented feat in photography: capturing a skydiver in free fall perfectly aligned with the surface of the sun. Andrew McCarthy, ...
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