Brace for Impact: A high-speed solar storm, triggered by the Sun’s most powerful eruption of the year, is currently buffeting Earth's magnetic field, with space weather experts warning of possible ...

Sunspot AR4618 erupted with an M4.4-class solar flare causing a coronal mass ejection (CME) that may give Earth a glancing ...

In 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 ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

A "dangerous" sunspot fired an intense "X-class" solar flare toward Earth, resulting in a radio blackout across the South Pacific region. The intense solar flare was spewed out by a newly emerging ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

On March 28, Earth was hit by an X-class solar flare that was strong enough to ionize part of the planet's atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A massive solar flare erupted from the sun over the weekend, causing radio blackouts on Earth – and more could be on the horizon. The sun emitted the solar flare on Saturday, peaking around 10:48 a.m.