The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon.At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar flare ...

There is a chance of powerful X-class solar flares that are capable of causing radio blackouts over the next three days, according to forecasters. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

MOSCOW, November 1. /TASS/. Scientists have registered a solar flare of the most powerful X-class in the early hours of Friday, Russia’s Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics has told TASS.

Italian astronomers report the detection of a new X-ray binary (XRB), which has received the designation 4XMM J181330.1-17511 ...

Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale designated with the letters M, C, B, and X, with X-class flares being the strongest. The number after the letter indicates the strength of the ...

M-class flares are more significant, causing minor issues with radio and GPS signals. X-class, the strongest, can cause much more serious issues, and any CME that erupts during the flare often ...

Witness the northern lights in the northern U.S. and Midwest as solar maximum activity enhances aurora visibility.

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 from A, B, C, M, and X with a zero to nine scale in ...

Launched on September 2, 2023, by the ISRO PSLV C-57 rocket, Aditya-L1 reached its orbit around the first Earth-Sun Lagrange Point (L1) on January 6, 2024. This point, 1.5 million ...