"The reason we are seeing them so far south and with so much intensity is that as the sun reaches its maximum activity it ...

The sunspot region 4366 fired off dozens of powerful solar flares in 24 hours, including the single strongest flare since ...

Like you and I the sun has cycles. None of us escapes the day-night rhythm of sleep and wakefulness. The most visible of the sun's rhythms is the 11 year solar cycle also called the sunspot cycle.

In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is predicting that the Sunspot Cycle that started this fall could be ...

The Sun has snapped into a hyperactive mood, unleashing a rapid-fire sequence of powerful eruptions just as a volatile ...

The Sun is putting on quite a show right now. Earth-facing sunspot region 4366 has been erupting almost non-stop since it emerged on January 30, producing six X-class solar flares so far.

The solar cycle continues to ramp up with currently the largest number of sunspots in the last two decades and maybe even longer. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center(SWPC) reports the estimated ...

WASHINGTON — When the sun sneezes, it's Earth that gets sick. It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical ...

How can 400-year-old sunspot drawings help modern-day scientists with solar cycles? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international team ...