Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent ...

On the night of October 17–18, the Sun unleashed two moderate solar flares classified as M-class, according to the Russian ...

Earth is bracing for major disruptions to communications, GPS, and technology as a rare four-way solar storm is racing ...

A erupted with M1 and M6 class solar flares. Watch the fireworks in these views from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more ...

This was announced on October 17 by the press service of the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of the IKI RAS."Since the ...

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could ...

The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms ...

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a geomagnetic storm watch for October 16 as several coronal mass ejections ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of light and particles from the sun. While they can pose hazards for things like satellites, these flares are also beautiful, dramatic and incredibly hot. NPR's Nell ...