As such, it is regularly releasing solar flares. Those flares can disrupt communications and infrastructure on Earth, as well as giving us beautiful aurorae as they collide with Earth’s atmosphere.

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...

The storm arrives after days of solar flares that reportedly sent bursts of plasma and magnetic fields towards Earth, prompting a watch that could trigger flashy light displays and communication ...

But behind the scenes, top officials in Japan and other countries are increasingly concerned about solar flares. Many governments are ramping up measures to head off potential disaster.

The sun also produces powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections that trigger geomagnetic storms, which lead to northern lights here on Earth. This year's solar maximum is expected to be ...

Solaris launches in Isfiya as part of a government program to increase space research in the Arab Israeli community ...

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the sun’s surface, sometimes followed by a bubble of magnetized plasma particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME). If they happen to spray out in ...

Skywatchers in Hokkaido enjoyed the rare treat of seeing the Northern Lights following a series of large solar flares that made the spectacle observed around the world. In Oumu, Hokkaido ...

said in a news release that it was monitoring the sun after a “series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that began May 8.” The storms can “trigger spectacular displays of ...

such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections," NASA said. "These events launch radiation deep into space. When a series of these solar events erupt, it's called a solar storm." Solar maximum ...