Solar Flare News

Sewage treatment plants, water filtration services and other key utilities rely on the grid to power their facilities.

It is known NASA does not have everyone believing earth will perish due to global warming.

What's more fun than something that misbehaves? When it comes to solar dynamics, we know a lot, but there are many things we don't yet understand.

The flare produced a beautiful coronal mass ejection, or CME, which was not Earth-directed but could deliver a glancing blow in the next few days.

These images of a solar flare were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on May 22, 2013.

The flux-freezing theorem dictates that the magnetic lines of force should flow away in lock-step with the particles, whole and unbroken.

New research led by a Johns Hopkins mathematical physicist focuses on the "misbehavior " of magnetic fields in solar flares.

For the first time since Cold War days, the United States and its allies have been threatened with nuclear attack.

A huge explosion on the sun will deal Earth a glancing blow today but should not pose a threat to the planet, scientists say.

Eleven years ago this week, one of the worst storms on record raged on the sun, churning huge amounts of plasma around the solar surface and spewing massive loads of particles into space and toward Earth.

NOT A CARRINGTON EVENT, HAPPILY: Giant Solar Flare Sideswipes Earth. Of course, if it had been, you wouldn't be reading this now.

Charting the impending doom is an international space station crew whose shielding protects them from the flare's radiation. Byrne, in the opening issue, cuts between the station and a series of brief vignettes that will likely pay off in the future: a distraught Madam President who grimly jokes that her opponents had always claimed she'd preside "over the end of civilization," a callous Pope fleeing the Vatican, the faceless crew of a submarine, inmates in a maximum security Texas prison.

Swinging around the Sun's eastern limb last Monday was a group of sunspots labeled active region AR1748.

While the planet was not hit with radiation, space weather forecasters say the solar blast briefly disrupted high-frequency radio signals.

As we mentioned in the blog Thursday , there's a particularly active sunspot on the sun right now.

Flight engineers on the International Space Station , including U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy , completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk on May 11 to repair a leaky coolant pump.

This week has seen the most active solar flares in this sun cycle, which began in 2008 and will last until 2019.

Solar activity continued on May 14, 2013, as the sun emitted a fourth X-class flare from its upper left limb, peaking at 9:48 p.m. EDT.

The sun has erupted with another X-class solar flare, adding a fourth huge solar explosion to the 48-hour tally.

A fourth solar flare has erupted on the sun. It's the bright spot to the left of this image, which was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.