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 ...

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

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...