See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The sun may be 93 million miles away, but that does not stop its solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling ...

It's easy to ignore solar flares as they are constantly-occurring phenomena, until an extremely strong one directly impacts Earth, that is. Solar flares are explosive pockets of searing plasma that ...

A newly active area on the sun is responsible for dozens of eruptions known as solar flares, including back-to-back X-class flares earlier this week. Solar flares typically originate from active ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class solar flares—an achievement rarely possible from Earth. Using the GREGOR ...

The Sun has emitted several solar flares in recent days, putting space-weather experts on the lookout for northern lights displays and disruptions in satellite technology. On Sunday, the Sun released ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to new research. Reading time 2 minutes Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of ...

Authorities predict that states as far south as Oregon and Illinois will be able to see auroras between now and Oct. 6 Charlotte Phillipp is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...