Brace for impact: The sun just emitted the strongest solar flare in six years, which knocked out radio frequencies and could hit Earth in several days’ time, scientists warned. “This is likely one of ...

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

A solar storm that has been roiling in the Earth's atmosphere for three days has led to a polar cap absorption event (PCA), wiping out radio communications near the North and South poles. The storm ...

An enormous solar flare spat out from the sun on New Year's Eve is still causing havoc on Earth, with radio blackouts affecting vast areas of the globe. The solar flare emitted by sunspot AR3536 was ...

The flare sent radiation that interfered with Earth's radio signals. There have been a series of recent space weather events as the sun enters a period of peak activity. A powerful solar flare ...

Earth was hit by a massive X-class solar flare, creating an hour-long radio blackout in parts of southeast Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. The flare left the Sun at roughly 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday ...

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At the time, astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted the highly unusual outburst in printed out records, annotating the major radio ...

The Sun is entering the most active part of its 11-year cycle, unleashing powerful solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and streams of energetic particles in every direction — including toward our ...

A study published today in Nature Astronomy examines solar radio aurora observed almost 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) above sunspots using the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for ...

Chants of Pobo! Pwanku! — Komboni Radio’s signature slogans — which translate to mic drop are reverberating in Zambia following the station’s ongoing, ambitious initiative to distribute 20,000 free ...