Space Weather, Solar Flares & Sun Storms: Latest News

French skywatcher Jean-Pierre Brahic took this photo of the violent solar flare from the sunspot 1302 on the sun's surface on Sept. 22, 2011. Earth is superimposed for scale.
French skywatcher Jean-Pierre Brahic took this photo of the violent solar flare from the sunspot 1302 on the sun's surface on Sept. 22, 2011. Earth is superimposed for scale. (Image credit: Jean-Pierre Brahic)

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A Russian Soyuz rocket launches the Ionosfera-M 3 and 4 spacecraft, along with 18 secondary payloads, from Vostochny Cosmodrome on July 25, 2025.

Russia launches satellite for Iran toward orbit alongside 2 space weather probes (photos)

By Mike Wall published

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the Ionosfera-M 3 and 4 satellites, along with an Iranian spacecraft and 17 cubesats, toward orbit early Friday morning (July 25).

Launches & Spacecraft

Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how

By Sanja Panovska, Agnit Mukhopadhyay, Raven Garvey published

Thanks to auroras and other space weather, humans have adapted techniques to overcome these issues.

Earth
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA's TRACERs space weather mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 23, 2025.

SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather

By Keith Cooper last updated

NASA's TRACERS mission blasted off July 23 on a Falcon 9 rocket with three other small agency satellites that will act as technology demonstrators to monitor space weather.

Science
Series of images showing the sun during a partial solar eclipse.

Partial solar eclipse September 2025: Live updates

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The next solar eclipse will be on Sept. 21, 2025.

Solar Eclipses
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launches on its debut flight from Florida on Jan. 16, 2025.

Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight — NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission.

Launches & Spacecraft

2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

By Keith Cooper published

The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth's atmosphere when space weather turns bad.

Astronomy

Northern lights may be visible in these 13 US states tonight as the sun hurls solar storm toward Earth

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.

Auroras

Northern lights may be visible in these 10 US States on June 26

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Washington as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere fuels geomagnetic storms with a high-speed solar wind.

Auroras
two panel image, left is the X-class solar flare erupting and right is a filament eruption from the sun.

Powerful X-class solar flare erupts from sun, knocking out radio signals across the Pacific (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Sunspot region 4114 has done it again! This time unleashing a colossal X1.9 solar flare.

The Sun

Northern lights may be visible in these 9 US States tonight

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New Hampshire as geomagnetic activity remains unsettled.

Auroras
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