It’s incredible to think that the sun, roughly 93 million miles away, can mess with our power grids here on Earth and paint our night skies with ribbons of green and red. But that’s exactly what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re seeing social media posts about an X-class solar flare, here’s what you need to know now. A powerful X-class solar flare ...

This surge of cosmic activity could be strong enough to make auroras visible far beyond their usual range Getty A powerful solar flare from the Sun launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth, ...

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is an eruption of gas and plasma from the Sun. Solar physicists record a number of them each year. Fortunately, most head into space in directions away from Earth. When ...

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 ...