Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

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

The Sun released a strong solar flare on Tuesday, Feb. 3, following several eruptions in the preceding days, prompting ...

The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.

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

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the blast that caused "a strong shortwave radio blackout over South America," ...

NASA captured powerful solar flares from Sun's active Region 4366, raising the possibility of auroras and brief radio disruptions on Earth.

In India, Indian Space Research Organisation said it is closely tracking the situation and warned of possible radio blackouts ...

A strong solar flare peaked just after 9 a.m. Tuesday. What does that mean?

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...

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