For more than two decades, a global network of telescopes has been eavesdropping on the sun by tracking millions of tiny ...

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 complex, dynamic celestial body, wrapped in electrical currents and magnetic ...

The 11-year solar cycle is tracked by NASA, learn how they do it. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Space.com is ...

Parker's instruments are gathering measurements while the Sun is in an active phase of its 11-year solar cycle, a period ...

For many years now, the activity of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle has been gauged through visible indications like sunspots, ...

Solar cycle space weather models may be miscalibrated: a new helioseismology study found the Sun’s magnetic activity has retreated toward its surface since 1987 in ways sunspot counts never detected.

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The Northern Lights may ramp up in intensity for the next 50 years as the sun potentially enters a new long-term phase of heightened activity, suggests a new study by solar scientists. The night sky ...

Scientists studying 50 years of solar data warn Earth may be entering a heightened risk period for rare “superflares” capable of disrupting technology worldwide.

The Sun’s 11-year cycle still drives flares, aurorae, and geomagnetic storms, but the machinery under that familiar rhythm ...