The Sun fired off six X-class flares in the first four days of February 2026, a burst of extreme activity spanning roughly 400,000 miles of the solar disk. That stretch covers nearly half the Sun’s ...

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A strong solar flare peaked just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, but what does that mean? Can it be seen from Earth? Tuesday's solar flare was not the first this year or even this month. Here is more ...