The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...

Scientists have found a way to spot active regions of the sun, below the solar surface, a full day or two before they erupt as sunspots on our nearest star, researchers said. Sunspots, which are ...

Sunspot AR3165 has erupted with several m-class solar flares in a span of a few hours. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

Each pixel of this image of a sunspot is roughly 10 kilometers. The photo was captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i using a new instrument. (Credit: VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA) SPACE ...

While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed ...

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 ...

The last in a series of three coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Wednesday, so experts are keeping an eye on geomagnetic ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named 3856, is facing Earth and has developed a volatile type of magnetic field ...

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 ...

A massive G4 solar storm is racing toward Earth — phone networks, GPS, and power grids face chaos. Here’s what you must know ...

A sunspot currently roiling on the side of the sun is slowly turning to face toward our planet, possibly putting us in the firing line for solar flares and subsequent radio blackouts. The sun fired ...

Over the last decade, KoSO’s massive photographic collection — over 1,20,000 plates — has been digitised, converting a ...