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

Brace yourselves for a northern light show of potentially epic proportions. Some lucky stargazers in the U.S. may glimpse the aurora borealis after the sun unleashed the second-largest solar flare in ...

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

A spectacular display of the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, is expected to be visible across large parts ...

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 ...

The sun has unleashed an enormous X-class solar flare, temporarily triggering a radio blackout above parts of the U.S. and unleashing a hefty coronal mass ejection (CME) that will likely slam into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent solar flares could bring the aurora borealis much farther south than usual, according to researchers at Southern ...

A massive solar flare exploded from our sun on Oct. 2. The flare was classified as an X-class flare which is one of the most intense types. Some residents in the U.S. could see auroras beginning ...

The Earth will be under a geomagnetic storm watch from Thursday through Saturday because of the effects of a solar flare that could make the northern lights visible in some parts of lower 48 ...