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Powerful solar eruption temporarily rips 'tail' off Earth's magnetosphereA massive disturbance in the solar wind caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail.
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Auroras expected tonight and through the weekend as US braces from 'cannibal' solar eruptionA chain of solar outbursts, including a "cannibal" coronal mass ejection that slammed Earth on Tuesday, will bring lovely auroras to parts of the northern US and most of Canada this weekend. Here's where to look.
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Scientists discover the possible origin of the sun's magnetic field, and it's not where they thought it wasNew simulations suggest that the origins of the sun's explosive storms could lie much closer to its surface than first thought.
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4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super' explosion — and Earth could be hit by the falloutIn 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 storm toward Earth.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes 1st-of-its-kind observation within a coronal mass ejectionNASA's sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe peered into the depths of a coronal mass ejection (CME) for the first time, revealing new details within the violent solar phenomenon.
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What if the Carrington Event, the largest solar storm ever recorded, happened today?If a solar storm as big as the Carrington Event struck today, it could lead to years long power outages.
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Enormous explosions may be visible on the sun during the April 8 solar eclipseWhen the moon fully covers the sun on April 8, viewers will have a rare view of the sun's corona, and everything that explodes out of it.
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Earth hit by radiation from rare 'double' X-class solar flare, triggering most powerful geomagnetic storm in 6 yearsA recent X-class flare, which was split into two simultaneous explosions, launched a coronal mass ejection that smashed into Earth, triggering the most powerful disruption to our planet's magnetic field for more than six years.
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Mercury slammed by gargantuan eruption from the sun's hidden far side, possibly triggering 'X-ray auroras'A gigantic plasma eruption from the sun's hidden far side recently launched a sizable coronal mass ejection that slammed into Mercury, potentially triggering invisible X-ray auroras around the planet's rocky surface.
