Sunspot AR3088 put on a striking display of solar activity, unleashing multiple M-class flares as it rotated across and out ...

With a techniques borrowed from earthquake detection, researchers are learning to predict where sunspots will boil-up. That ...

A massive solar storm has created rare Northern Lights in regions where they’re rarely seen, marking the first event of its ...

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 ...