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 ...

This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the night sky, and that's expected to continue as the sun is now in its solar ...

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year. Scientists will not be able to determine the exact peak of this solar maximum period ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Our sun has officially hit its solar maximum, with increased rates of ...

Stunning imagery from outer space shows the power of the Sun, with a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from the giant star’s surface, but space experts say there is no need to ...

The Sun unleashed 23 solar flares in a single 24-hour stretch during late May 2026, including three M-class eruptions, according to edited event logs published by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction ...

Researchers using the Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network, known as BiSON, have detected subtle structural differences between successive solar minima that point to hidden changes in the Sun’s outer ...

The night sky in Wisconsin glows with the Northern Lights as a geomagnetic storm brings vibrant pink and green colors to a majority of the northern states. (Photo by Ross Harried/NurPhoto via Getty ...

The sun is an incomprehensibly gigantic, constantly roiling nuclear furnace—but some days are even busier than others. Based on data collected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, our solar system’s ...

'We're anticipating another year or so of maximum phase before we really enter the declining phase.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...