From the perspective of reproductive rights advocates, postmortem pregnancy is the bottom of a slippery slope down which anti-abortion sentiment has led America. It obliterates women’s autonomy, ...

When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption ...

NASA reported sunspot region 4114 unleashed a powerful X1.2-class solar flare on June 17, disrupting shortwave radio communication, especially over the Pacific, including Hawaii. Frequencies below ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time-lapses of the flares in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage c ...

Sunspot region 4114 has fired off its strongest blast yet — an X1.2-class solar flare that erupted on June 17, triggering ...

Solar flares measured around X1 — like the May 13 and 14 events — indicate strong flare intensity. An X10 flare is described as as a severe event, according to NOAA.

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at ...

Aditya-L1 took a picture of an X-class solar flare—a colossal explosion of energy from the Sun—on December 31, 2023. The burst was accompanied by the ejection of a glowing plasma "blob" that ...

A strong solar flare peaked at around 4:25 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, causing radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and Africa. Courtesy of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of solar maximum was a key reason for the spike, but other factors were also ...

It's been a busy year on the sun, as it officially entered the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle of activity, known as solar maximum. In 2024, the sun launched over 50 X-class solar flares — the ...

The sun just erupted with a powerful X-class solar flare, causing radio blackouts across the Atlantic Ocean. The flare, which hit X2.3-class in strength, was emitted at 8:40 a.m. ET from a sunspot ...