Sunspot AR3186 erupted with an X1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. Five flares of the penultimate power class were recorded on the Sun on November 29, the E. K. Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics said in a statement. At about one ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation resulting from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. They are classified into different categories based on their intensity, with ...

Insurance firm Lloyds recently estimated that an extreme solar event could lead to worldwide chaos with grounded flights, ...

Commercial aircraft operate at altitudes where Earth’s protective atmosphere is significantly thinner. This makes critical ...

Thousands of Airbus A320-family jets have been pulled for urgent software fixes after a solar storm triggered a sudden ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captures sunspot AR3341 blast a powerful X1.1 solar flare. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: All Parts Equal by Airae / co ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space.