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Space Weather, Solar Flares & Sun Storms: Latest News
See our amazing collection of stories and features about the increasingly important topic of space weather (aka solar storms).
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Here's a brief rundown of the spookiest things in space, from vampire stars to zombie planets.
Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) space wallpaper of a huge, handle-shaped prominence taken on Sept. 14,1999.
Take a look at the sun's mightiest solar flares and eruptions in written history.
See how different types of solar flares stack up in this SPACE.com infographic.
See images of the solar flare that erupted on Oct. 22, 2012.
An X1.8 flare erupted from the Sun on October 22, 2012. Radio interruption and geomagnetic storms may be imminent.
Radiation from the solar flare briefly interrupted radio communications on Earth.
Gradient filters aren't just for photographers. Astronomers use them, too.
A spectacular solar prominence larger than the Earth erupted from the sun on Friday (Oct. 19).
Glass beads in moon rocks revealed a link to the sun.
A photography student took this time-lapse video of the Northern Lights, colorful foliage and scenery in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
See photos of Earth's northern lights sent in for Oct. 2012.
Sun spots might appear small and innocent, but they hint at powerful forces at work on the surface of the Sun, forces that can wreak havoc on our electronic devices when they cause solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
A wave of solar particles from the sun may amp up the northern lights displays on Earth Monday night (Oct. 8).
Painterly auroras occur when charged particles from the sun get caught in our planets magnetic field and pulled down near one of our poles. The variety of colors are the result of different electromagnetic reactions with oxygen and nitrogen.
Far from Earth and the inner solar system two massive gas giants patrol the outer reaches of our solar system; Uranus knocked on its axis and Neptune, wrapped in a cobalt blue atmosphere of inexplicably fast winds.
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission (RBSP) captured radio waves emitted by energetic particles in the magnetosphere. The 'chorus' phenomenon is well known by scientists and is also known as 'Earthsong'.
A series of active regions lined up on the Sun as they rotated into the view of the Solar Dynamics Observatory over a 3 day span (September 22-24, 2012).
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