Greetings stargazers. The current sunspot cycle maximum continues to amaze. Several times during the past year, the Aurora ...

Astronomers are really clever, and they've concocted new ways to do just that. They use a global network of telescopes, ...

They are all coming from the same sunspot complex, a region known as 4366. Since Sunday, it has released six X-class flares.

Elon Musk is pitching a future where artificial intelligence runs not in desert server farms but in orbit, powered directly ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Sun Region 4366 has produced dozens of solar flares since Jan. 30, "putting on quite a show," says Slooh President and ...

A newly active area on the sun is responsible for dozens of eruptions known as solar flares, including back-to-back X-class ...

NASA says the energy from a flare travels at the speed of light. Therefore, a flare can be seen from Earth about 8 minutes ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern lights are pictured over Portsall in western France on January 19. - Oscar Chuberre/AFP/Getty Images Powerful solar ...

(NEXSTAR) – A solar radiation storm stronger than one we’ve seen in over two decades is in progress, the Space Weather Prediction Center announced Monday. The storm is classified as an “S4” – the ...