After an X-class solar flare erupted, shortwave radio blackouts were detected across the Americas — the sunlit side of Earth at the time. These disruptions, common during intense solar activity, occur when the flare releases X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation into space.

Saturday night’s northern lights display follows “strong” radio blackouts on Friday, an event that NOAA said briefly disrupted high-frequency radio communications and radio contact after an X1.1 solar flare—classified as the most intense— emitted from the sun’s surface on Thursday.

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Some U.S. states could be treated with a northern lights display due a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space forecasts.

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research career."

NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing global, 3D views of the Sun’s corona, PUNCH will reveal how solar wind and explosive solar events evolve and impact our planet.

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the sun’s surface, sometimes followed by a bubble of magnetized plasma particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME). If they happen to spray out in ...

NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions have successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SPHEREx will map the entire celestial sky in 102 ...

India’s Aditya-L1 captures an unprecedented solar flare, IISc researchers unlock gene activation with mini proteins in yeast, and a US-China study exposes economic losses from Bt maize overuse and pest resistance.