This story was updated 1:42 p.m. ET to include information from the most recent update from NOAA space weather officials. Space weather experts are keeping close watch for a solar storm expected to ...

The Sun has entered one of its most volatile moods in years, hurling a torrent of powerful flares and charged particles into space that are now brushing past Earth. The latest eruption, a colossal X ...

The sun has just fired off an eruption so intense it ranks among the most powerful solar flares seen in three decades, a jolt of energy that has put space weather forecasters and power grid operators ...