Composite images reveal how the sun's corona changed from one total solar eclipse to another in 2023 and 2024, just as solar ...

Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a ...

Scientists are worried that once solar maximum is over, a more intense phase that closely follows could end in disaster. Known as the "battle zone," the newly identified developmental stage is when ...

The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms' on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

A flurry of solar storms suggests the sun is in a period of maximal activity, so more auroras could be in store. Next month, ...

The sun may be the key to all life on Earth, but it is not the reason global temperatures have been rapidly rising in the ...

After several quiet weeks for the sun, Dec. 8 saw an X-class solar flare erupt. Displays of auroras could be possible in its ...

A new band emerges in both of the sun's hemispheres during each solar maximum and lasts until the end of the next sunspot cycle, when the bands reach the sun's equator and disappear in what ...

Auroral displays have decreased since the equinox, with the next peak expected close to March's equinox. However, here's why ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas ...