Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

A minor G1-class geomagnetic storm will hit Earth right as our planet reaches perihelion, its closest point to the ... The Sun The sun just spat out the strongest solar flares of 2025 — and more ...

A blazing X2.7-class solar flare erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday, hurling a scorching wave of plasma and charged particles straight at Earth. NASA/SDO.

Parker Solar Probe came within 5.3 million miles (8.5 million kilometers) of the sun's surface Tuesday (Sept. 6) at 2:04 a.m. EDT (0604 GMT) in its 13th close approach of the sun, or perihelion.

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. This peak is anticipated around mid to late ...

Look out for a total solar eclipse, more solar flares, and the Parker Solar Probe’s closest approach to the sun. Look out for a total solar ... let’s talk about perihelion day, January 2, because it’s ...

Three solar flares occurred over a 24-hour period this week. While we may not see them with a naked eye, they can affect Earth. Here's how.

And solar flares travel at the speed of light, says Jesse Woodroffe, who leads the space weather research program in NASA’s Heliophysics Division. That makes them difficult to anticipate and ...

The sun has had an active few days, firing several powerful solar flares and (plumes of searing-hot solar material out into space. On Tuesday (May 13), a sunspot on the sun's surface named AR4086 ...

But the average temperature of the Sun's corona is up to 300,000 K, and it can reach temperatures in the millions of degrees during high-energy solar flares. Credit: NASA/Sally Bensusen ...

Its first perihelion in June 2020, ... That such miniature solar flares may be an explanation for the mysterious coronal heating was proposed in the 1980s by NASA solar physicist Eugene Parker, ...