You could get more opportunities to see supercharged auroras over the next few months, thanks to our very active sun. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle. The current cycle, known as ...

Our sun continues to make news headlines as we’re still in a strong solar cycle that has generated numerous solar flares and ...

Our sun has officially hit its solar maximum, with increased rates of auroras and solar flares expected in the coming months, NASA has announced. The sun goes through 11-year cycles of activity, ...

2024 was a busy year for solar news, but what can we expect from 2025? In April, a total solar eclipse was visible to millions in North America. This was followed in May by the largest geomagnetic ...

On Oct. 15 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) jointly announced that the sun had entered solar maximum, a stretch of time when its activity is at or near peak. There ...

The May 2025 storm remains the undisputed heavyweight of the current solar cycle. It was the only storm to officially reach ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class ...

An X7.1 (R3) solar flare erupted from Region 3842 this evening - as seen in this animation (courtesy of jhelioviewer). This was the second strongest flare of Solar ...

This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (on the right, captured in December 2019).

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