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After a calm week, the sun erupted again. A powerful M5.1 solar flare burst from an emerging sunspot region, shaking the ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

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Earth is facing a double coronal mass ejection impact today, January 3, 2026, potentially triggering G2-class geomagnetic ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

Researchers followed a single solar hotspot for 3 months as it unleashed nearly 1,000 flares, revealing insights about our Sun's fury.

A new solar storm is approaching. In 2025 there were several, but they did not have serious consequences. Now, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has iss ...

Scientists tracked active solar region NOAA 13664 for 94 days, showing how persistent magnetic complexity drives flares and ...

OVRO-LWA radio data contrasts a quiet day (Sept. 29, 2025) with the hours after the X1.7-class flare recorded at 2:35 ET on Nov. 9. The type III radio bursts, shown in the radio dynamic spectrum ...

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Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. In the past few days, the sun ...