You could get more opportunities to see supercharged auroras over the next few months, thanks to our very active sun. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle. The current cycle, known as ...

Our sun has officially hit its solar maximum, with increased rates of auroras and solar flares expected in the coming months, NASA has announced. The sun goes through 11-year cycles of activity, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sun is officially nine months into a new solar weather cycle, scientists have confirmed, and ...

In the past one and a half years, the Sun has been rather dull: hardly a sunspot covered its surface, hardly a solar flare hurled radiation and particles into space. As observational data now show, ...

We've been sold a dream. Solar panels glitter atop roofs and sprawl across desert landscapes, symbols of progress and ...

Solar power has a dark side: panels are still built to be thrown away, and we risk creating a mountain of waste that locks ...

It wasn't just my imagination. Sunspot and solar flare activity have ticked up more quickly than anticipated in the past year. We know our star has its ups and downs. About every 11 years, sunspot ...

The sun has been spotless for 28 days straight, with a total of 184 days of 2020 now sunspot-free. This is one of the longest sunspot-free stretches in recent years. There was a 24-day stretch in ...