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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Northern lights may be visible in these 18 states tonight

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

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

Auroras
three panel image showing the sun on the left, the solar flare erupting in the center and a view of the northern lights on the right

Solar eruption from Earth-facing sunspot could trigger northern lights Aug. 8 (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.

The Sun
view of the sun on the left with multiple dark patches visible on the surface, these are sunspots on the right is an inset image showing one of the m flares close up.

3 powerful solar flares erupt in less than 24 hours, ending weeks of calm on the sun (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Space weather forecasters are watching for faint CMEs that could reach Earth later this week.

The Sun

Space hurricanes are real — and they wreak more havoc than we thought

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Space hurricanes can shake Earth's magnetic field and scramble satellites without a solar storm in sight.

Earth

Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies

By Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti published

Space weather imposes threats on everything from electrical grids to GPS navigation.

Launches & Spacecraft
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
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