After a calm week, the sun erupted again. A powerful M5.1 solar flare burst from an emerging sunspot region, shaking the stillness of space weather and igniting new forecasts of heightened activity.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On L1 (SWFO-L1) mission is poised to initiate continuous in-space monitoring of the Sun for the first time following ...
Scientists tracked a single active region on the Sun for 94 days using two spacecraft, far beyond the typical two-week ...