In an era where clean, renewable energy sources are more essential than ever, Shimizu Corporation, a prominent Japanese ...

Solar flares are characterized by intense bursts of energy and radiation from the Sun’s surface. In a matter of just a few minutes, the material is heated to many millions of degrees. It produces a ...

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

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

On February 4, 2026, the Sun unleashed an intense X4.2 solar flare, sparking significant radio blackouts across parts of ...

When last year's solar superstorm "Gannon" slammed into Earth, it not only painted the sky with beautiful auroras, but also shrunk one of the planet's protective layers to just one-fifth its usual ...

Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.

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

Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. In the past few days, the sun ...

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Indiana’s plan to get rare earths from coal waste and how batteries keep ...