The utilities hatched a plan to undermine rooftop solar. They started saying untrue things about us, suggesting we were ...

Saturday night’s northern lights display follows “strong” radio blackouts on Friday, an event that NOAA said briefly ...

Scientists caught a massive and extremely powerful X-class solar flare being spat out from the sun on Friday (March 28), just before the stellar eruption triggered a radio blackout across two ...

A powerful X-class solar flare was unleashed by an emerging sunspot region leading to radio blackouts over large parts of ...

Some U.S. states could be treated with a northern lights display due a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space ...

The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region. The intense solar flare originated from sunspot region AR4046 and was ...

After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to ...

For the latest episode of the “Boiling Point” podcast, I invited two of the most prominent voices in California’s ...

A first-of-its-kind solar project in Merced County could become a model for other communities across the state and nation.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the sun’s surface, sometimes followed by a bubble of magnetized plasma particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME). If they happen to spray out in ...