You might think of a solar flare as the Sun throwing a cosmic tantrum, complete with fireworks. Their significance is not necessarily in the fiery displays they create but in how they can affect ...

According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts, there is an 80 percent chance of the sunspot ...

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 ...

The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

The sun unleashed a strong X2 solar flare on Sunday; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an alert stating radio blackouts can occur, indicating a slight chance for ...

A massive solar flare that erupted on Oct. 29 could interfere with communications networks on Earth the following day, according to the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — 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 ...