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 flare ...

M-class flares may trigger brief radio blackouts, affecting the polar regions and minor radiation storms. Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized region of the sun's atmosphere ...

MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. Scientists detected five powerful M-class solar flares on December 24, Russia’s Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics has told TASS. "On December 24, at around 3: ...

Witness the northern lights in the northern U.S. and Midwest as solar maximum activity enhances aurora visibility.

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. As we continue deeper into Solar Cycle 25, more solar flares are expected to erupt from ...

but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range from A, B, C, M, and X with a zero to nine scale in ...

Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale designated with the letters M, C, B, and X, with X-class flares being the strongest. The number after the letter indicates the strength of the ...