and solar activity dies down again, will scientists know for sure when it peaked. The sun hasn't spat out any flares stronger than X8.7 since September 2017, when it emitted an X11.8 and X13.3 ...

The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all previously recorded solar flares pale in ... Oct. 15, 2024 — Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its ...