The X-class solar flare — the most powerful type the sun ... Tuesday's supercharged flare bypassed Earth's magnetic shield, or magnetosphere, and ionized the upper parts of the upper atmosphere ...

Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

A storm as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859 might cause some issues, says a reader, but modern planes have a lot of safeguards built in. You should be more worried about "superflares" ...

"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 ...

The storm arrives after days of solar flares that reportedly sent bursts ... geomagnetic storms as "a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange ...

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 ...

Solar flares disrupt long–range radio communications ... though some of it did glance off the planet's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday ...

By mapping solar flare data into blue circles and pairing ... The mission will observe Earth’s magnetosphere, capturing X-ray images that reveal how the planet's magnetic shield reacts to ...

Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all previously recorded solar flares pale in ... Oct. 15, 2024 — Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its ...

The agency said isolated minor geomagnetic storms, a type of disturbance in the Earth’s magnetosphere ... “solar maximum,” the period in its 11-year cycle during which solar events, like ...