Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

Science The active regions of the Sun are the site of powerful radiation emissions, called flares, which are among the most energetic phenomena in our solar system. A subcategory stands out because ...

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 ...

A solar flare has already disrupted shortwave radio communications across vast areas of the Pacific, including Hawaii, and it ...

Study shows that deep learning predicts TEC variations in the ionosphere, minimizing failures in satellite signals during ...

The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

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 sun unleashed a strong X2 solar flare on Sunday; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an alert stating radio blackouts can occur, indicating a slight chance for ...

A massive solar flare that erupted on Oct. 29 could interfere with communications networks on Earth the following day, according to the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.