A survey of more than 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that “superflares” that could play havoc with electronics on Earth may ...

Repairs to a storm-damaged solar farm on Anglesey will take weeks to complete, its owners have said. A clean-up is underway ...

High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than ...

Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a ...

Six extreme solar storms have struck Earth in the past 14,500 ... However, the exact date of the most recent Miyake event has, until now, eluded scientists. Dating extreme solar eruption events ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

Scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel ...

The northern lights could become visible low on the horizon as far south as Indianapolis this week, according to one aurora ...

The aim of the ESA's new mission is to be able to study total solar eclipses whenever they want, and that last for hours ...

If a solar storm of unprecedented magnitude occurred ... 660 BCE event had long eluded researchers, until now. Miyake events represent an extreme type of solar activity first identified in 2012 ...

Now, imagine an aurora hundreds of times brighter ... sun would instantly turn smartphones into bricks. Such extreme solar storms are rare—only six are known to have left their traces on ...

Dahl works at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado. He’s part of a team tracking the sun as it goes through an ...