New research suggests that the unexpected intensity of the ongoing solar maximum may be partly tied to a lesser-known, 100-year solar cycle. If true, solar activity could spike further in the ...

The Sun is approaching its solar maximum, the apex of its 11-year solar cycle. As it approaches that, as we’ve already seen ...

Obscure 100-Year Solar Cycle May Have Hit Minimum – Expect More Activity For Decades To Come This might explain why the last two solar cycles have been pretty weird. Dr. Alfredo Carpineti ...

This solar cycle still has the potential to cause more celestial spectacles before activity calms down. And scientists say that the coming solar cycles may be even more eventful.

Just last month, a powerful solar storm lit up skies across the northern hemisphere, producing vivid auroras visible as far ...

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

But there's even more exciting news for fans of the northern lights (or, if you're in the southern hemisphere, the southern lights). In a new study, scientists suggest that the sun is entering a ...

Solar Orbiter is gathering data on phenomena including the sun's magnetic field, its activity cycle, and the solar wind, a relentless high-speed flow of charged particles emanating from the sun's ...