Solar flares are as inevitable as they are powerful. While the sun’s baseline may seem chaotic to us, astronomers know that ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...

You may have seen this news item in late November, but it came quickly and disappeared even more quickly. On October 30, 2025, an Airbus A320 was forced to abort its flight when one of the control ...

The Sun has just delivered one of its most forceful reminders that space weather is not an abstract concept but a real-world disruptor. An intense X-class solar flare blasted the dayside of Earth, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A spot on the sun 10 times larger than Earth has been seen ...

Cryptocurrency investors face an unusual danger lurking 93 million miles away. Solar flares, massive bursts of energy from the sun’s surface, can interfere with the digital infrastructure that keeps ...

Solar activity is again stirring public anxiety, but the current situation is more nuanced than the most dramatic headlines suggest. Forecasters are tracking fresh flares and geomagnetic disturbances ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...