Images of the far-side of the sun taken by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter of a giant sunspot region makes aurora ...

A moderate solar flare burst from the sun on Friday morning, marking the strongest eruption in days from an increasingly ...

Sunspots AR3664 and AR3663 have been erupting with X- and M-class solar flares. Both sunspots are Earth-facing and could ...

It's getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX's Starlink and other players in the ...

The sun has just released a powerful M5.7 solar flare, sending a stream of charged particles hurtling toward Earth’s ...

Solar Orbiter has spotted a large sunspot group forming on the opposite side of the Sun – if it's still active when it rotates into view, it could trigger solar flares.

When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a ...

Observing an eclipse of the sun is always fascinating, but on March 29, 2025 — when a partial solar eclipse is visible in the Northern Hemisphere — there will be an extra reason to do so. As well as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A giant black spot has appeared on the sun’s disk — and ...

Why sunspots are able to last so long has been a mystery for millenia, but a new observation technique revealed their secret. The equilibrium between magnetic fields and pressure allows the solar ...