PHOTOS: Northern lights seen across Utah for the second night in a row The sun, like the earth, is spinning on an axis - a full rotation equal to 27 Earth days.. So these solar flares and being ...

The Northern Lights may be putting on an encore performance Saturday night after putting on a minor show Friday night, only ...

The most dramatic solar storm in decades wasn't only notable for the gorgeous colors seen in the sky -- it's also a way for ...

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 ...

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the ...

It seems like not a week goes by without news of solar flares and, very often, a forecast for auroras in their wake. So are the northern lights being seen from farther south than usual?

India’s first dedicated space based solar mission, Aditya-L1, has made a ground-breaking observation as one of its scientific payloads has captured the first-ever image of a solar flare ...

Check date and it's impact A powerful X-class solar flare has sparked a geomagnetic storm warning. The flare, classified as X7.1, erupted from the Sun on October 1, 2024. NASA astronaut Matthew ...

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 ...