Solar scientists are tracking a surge in activity on the sun that could unleash powerful storms toward Earth, with the potential to disrupt electricity, communications and navigation on a global scale ...

Did you miss the northern lights last night? Don't worry: The powerful activity from the sun that unveiled the beautiful display in skies across the United States is expected to continue. Eruptions of ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped human history.

Confidence in an Earth-component to the most recent CME is high,” the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction ...

Active areas of the sun blasted waves of charged particles, known as coronal mass ejections (CME), toward Earth this week, with two arriving on Tuesday. The result was a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm, ...

For two nights, dazzling auroras delighted sky-gazers in unexpected places, including in the US as far south as Florida. The cause: dual solar storms unleashed by the sun reaching Earth. A severe ...

Tuesday night's aurora display across Colorado was incredibly vibrant, and in some cases was even more visible than the spectacular show from May 2024 when the largest solar storm in 20 years hit ...

A powerful solar eruption is expected to hit Earth soon, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center. A coronal mass ejection -- ...