Damage from solar flares and CMEs vary. Strong solar flares can affect satellites. Powerful CMEs, however, interact with the ...

The chief causes of large-scale EMPs are solar flares, electromagnetic bombs ... The powerful electromagnetic field produced by an EMP can short-circuit infrastructure from satellites to smartphones.

Solar storms may cause faint auroras across fringes of the northern United States this weekend. Forecasters are also ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the most powerful solar flare emitted by the sun since 2017, according to ...

An explosion happened on the sun Oct. 3, 2024, producing the most powerful solar flare since 2017 and kicking off a series of ...

Sunspot AR3757 erupted with an M1-class solar flare and a plasma plume. Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and ...

A sunspot on the surface of our volatile star exploded yesterday, sending an extremely powerful solar flare flashing through space towards the Earth. The flare, which hit an X7.1-class in strength ...

Solar flares are classified according to their strength, with X flares being the most powerful and rare, and with the potential to cause severe impacts to Earth. Tuesday's flare, which was ranked ...

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday, according to Spaceweather.com. The event, which saw a huge amount of electromagnetic radiation being slung our way by the Sun ...