People across the U.S. caught a glimpse of the northern lights last night as a geomagnetic storm roiled in our atmosphere.
The flare, which reached our little blue marble on December ... image shows the licking flames of the Sun's surface whipping and blasting outward as the solar activity increases.
NASA and NOAA have declared the Sun's solar maximum, noting increased sunspot activity and heightened solar events that influence Earth's space weather. This period is linked to significant ...
In May, NOAA issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning. The storm that slammed Earth was the strongest in more than two ...
Predicted to bring the northern lights as far south as parts of California and Alabama, a large coronal mass ejection from ...
The increased solar activity ... Some of these flares can be accompanied by coronal mass ejections, or clouds of plasma and charged particles, that emerge from the sun's outermost atmosphere ...
Solar activity increases and decreases in a cycle that last about 11 years, astronomers say. The sun appears to be near the ...
Strong solar storms this year have triggered shimmering auroras much farther south than usual, filling skies with hues of pink, purple, green and blue ... flare erupting from the sun, but ...
This shows up as blue at higher altitudes ... while at other times it is considerably more blustery. During the Sun’s more active periods, it produces intense solar flares and immense ...