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

The Sun has shifted into a volatile mood, hurling vast clouds of charged particles into space and putting Earth squarely in the firing line. Forecasters are now watching for signs that a so‑called ...

The Sun is putting on quite a show right now. Earth-facing sunspot region 4366 has been erupting almost non-stop since it emerged on January 30, producing six X-class solar flares so far.

A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...

It almost sounds like a sci-fi movie. But scientists say something like this could really happen to Earth, just not for ...

The photo, shared by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center on X, shows our planet silhouetted by the solar corona. The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational ...

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

The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years ...

From this past July to our upcoming January, Earth gets nearly 2 million miles closer to the sun. At the same time, average highs in Colorado Springs and Pueblo go from 86 and 93 degrees to 45 and 48 ...