A groundbreaking study has revealed that solar flares can reach astonishing temperatures of 108 million degrees Fahrenheit (60 million°C), nearly six times hotter than earlier estimates. This ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent years. These beautiful light shows are caused by ...

A massive sunspot is now directly facing Earth—and experts are warning it could unleash chaos. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have issued fresh alerts as powerful ...

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The most powerful solar flare of 2025 has launched a ball of energy toward Earth that could trigger widespread auroras across the United States tonight. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Considered our solar system's largest explosive events, solar flares can sometimes be as strong as a billion hydrogen bombs. Those with enough energy output to rank as an X-class have the potential to ...

Update 10:30 a.m. 5/11/2024: At 8:40 EDT this morning, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center officially declared that the ongoing solar flare activity ...

Today's solar flare forecasting is pretty straightforward. Earth has several instruments pointed at the sun that monitor it, and when a solar flare erupts, NOAA predicts whether it'll hit Earth and ...

After a day that saw the sun release strong solar flares, the Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a strong geomagnetic storm watch for the planet. Over the last 24 hours the sun has released ...