In a remarkable celestial event, a solar flare classified as X8.1 erupted from the Sun on Sunday, raising significant concerns for Earth as a solar storm is projected to impact our planet by Thursday.
A radio blackout that blanketed the Arctic over the past two days was triggered by a radiation storm flung out from the other side of the sun. This blackout, known as a polar cap absorption event (PCA ...
In the early hours of Tuesday (April 23), quadruple solar flares near-simultaneously exploded from across the sun's surface, and there's a good chance that one of these outbursts launched a solar ...
NASA’s investigations into the cosmos just keep getting cooler and cooler. Think: the James Webb Space Telescope, the Curiosity rover on Mars, and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission, which ends with a ...
NASA captured an image of a strong solar flare the sun, emitted on Jan. 9, 2023 (this was not the unprecedented event). Credit: NASA / SDO Our mild-mannered sun is capable of some mighty solar ...