The sun sure has woken up this week, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare on Jan. 18 that hurled a colossal, fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward Earth. That CME has now ...

Northern Lights forecast: 18 states may see the Aurora tonight due to a G2 solar storm. Check the map and best times.

Thanks to the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft XMM-Newton, astronomers have seen a powerful explosion of plasma erupting from a distant star for the first time. We have seen (and felt) plenty of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three solar flares are barreling toward Earth and they could create a northern lights show to be remembered Tuesday night. These ...

Update Monday 8 p.m.: The coronal mass ejection (CME) arrived earlier and stronger than expected, around sunset. The planetary index (abbreviated Kp for it's German equivalent) initial topped 8 and is ...

A geomagnetic storm watch is in place for July 1-2, 2025. The Northern Lights may be visible in the U.S. overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday as a coronal mass ejection travels towards Earth to cause a ...

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a large-scale eruptive solar phenomenon in which magnetized plasma from the Sun’s corona is expelled into interplanetary space, typically associated with magnetic ...