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

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

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

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

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

A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense ...

Scientists say this powerful surge in solar activity could set the stage for the northern lights to appear as early as ...

In a dramatic escalation of solar activity, the sun has unleashed an X8.3 flare — 2026’s strongest yet — causing radio ...

Multiple M-class and X-class solar flares erupted within 24 hours as an active sunspot released intense radiation affecting ...

The Sun has unleashed a quartet of strong solar flares, which could herald a wild week of space weather. It all kicked off at ...

The flare was part of a series of three X-class solar eruptions that occurred between late February 1 and early February 2.