A solar flare’s intensity is classified as either A, B, C, M or X, with X being the most powerful and each letter representing an increase in strength by a factor of ten. Radio blackout ...

The culprit? A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday morning (May 14), sending charged particles and plasma hurtling toward Earth. And experts warn ...

A high-magnitude solar flare erupted from a new sunspot on the sun’s surface, which caused a disruption of radio signals across Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere on Tuesday. Classified as an X2.7 ...

The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14), unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region AR4087. The eruption peaked at 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825 GMT), triggering ...

The sun unleashed another strong X-class solar flare overnight, stronger than the one that occurred on Tuesday — an X2.7, the strongest so far this year. X-class flares are the strongest and ...

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28), just before the stellar eruption triggered a radio blackout across two ...

The sun unleashed a strong X1.1 solar flare on Friday, March 28, as scientists continue to monitor the possibilities of coronal mass ejections, which can ultimately lead to geomagnetic storms ...

And solar flare radiation itself can disrupt communication networks and satellite operations. Unfortunately, solar scientists cannot reliably predict when the sun will belch out a flare.

1947: The brutalised corpse of Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) is found in Leimert Park ... police with pulling a fake gun on staff in a London pub. 2005: An intense solar flare blasts X-rays ...

Now, according to NASA, it has spewed out an intense solar flare that took out radio communications across the Atlantic Ocean and South America. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO ...

After a recent solar flare, residents in some northern U.S. states may be able to see the stunning northern lights this weekend. On Thursday, the sun emitted the strongest solar flare in seven ...