Your GPS system seems infallible, a constant digital companion guiding you through unfamiliar roads and busy cities. Yet there's a celestial threat lurking millions of miles away that can transform ...

The sun has just fired off an eruption so intense it ranks among the most powerful solar flares seen in three decades, a jolt of energy that has put space weather forecasters and power grid operators ...

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This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star.

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the fundamental driver of solar activity. The research, published in The Astrophysical ...

Something stormy is happening in the skies right now. The sun has released a “relentless barrage” of solar flares (21 overall) in the space of 24 hours, Space reports – and it seems more could be on ...

LAS CRUCES — The eerie yet beautiful auroras that delivered pink and green nighttime skies across New Mexico and much of the U.S. this month are the result of geomagnetic storms caused by solar ...