Run for your lives! Massive solar flare hits Earth tonight The biggest solar flare in four years has blasted out from the sun, and is expected to reach Earth late tonight. The flare, or coronal mass ejection (CME), was emitted on Monday at 8:56pm EST. It’s been categorized as a Class X2.2 flare, the most [...]
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