An explanation of what solar flares are, why they happen, what effect they have on earth, and what a regular person can do to prepare for one hitting the planet.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a solar flare hit Earth tomorrow? It’s a scenario that seems straight out of a ...

The sun blasted Earth with a powerful X-class solar flare on Tuesday, causing radio blackouts. Three more moderate solar flares followed, and we could see more eruptions in the coming days.

Last year, the Sun delivered an impressive spectacle with a series of powerful solar flares. These events led to the formation of a major geomagnetic storm that struck Earth on May 10, 2024. The ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

A huge plume of solar plasma is due to slam into the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, in the wake of the strongest solar flare of the sun's 11-year solar cycle so far.

A solar storm hitting Earth could cause parts of the nation to see the northern lights. See where NOAA thinks it could happen ...

Only 12 flares more powerful than X10-class have ever been recorded. The most powerful solar flare of this solar cycle so far occurred on October 3, hitting X9.0-class in strength.

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.

There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of solar maximum was a key reason for the spike, but other factors were also ...

High radiocarbon levels in the rings of subfossil tree stumps suggest that an incomprehensibly powerful solar storm, known as a "Miyake event," smashed into our planet more than 14 millennia ago.

The sun flashed back-to-back powerful X-class solar flares at the Earth. X-class flares are the most intense type of solar flare.