When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. These processes follow the solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of increasing and decreasing activity on ...

Federal forecasters are warning that a powerful X-class solar flare could trigger strong radio blackouts and strain power ...

At the end of the last solar cycle in 2019, the official predictions were that the next cycle would be just as mild as its predecessor. Those predictions were wrong. The current Solar Cycle 25 turned ...

A vast, volatile blemish has opened on the face of the Sun, and it is already rewriting the current solar cycle’s record book. The decade’s largest sunspot, a complex tangle of magnetism more than ten ...

Strongest solar storm in two decades struck earth resulting in rare aurorae far from the poles. What are these solar storms? How are aurorae formed?

Scientists charged with predicting the sun's activity for the next 11-year solar cycle say that it's likely to be weak, much like the current one. The current solar cycle, Cycle 24, is declining and ...

A historic S4-severe solar radiation storm triggered rare auroral displays over the high-altitude desert of Ladakh. This ...

People in the U.S. were treated to stunning auroras last week when a powerful geomagnetic storm pushed the celestial displays as far south as Florida and Mexico. The spectacle was particularly ...

Solar observers are in for an electrifying time. The total solar eclipse will grace North America on April 8th, and with our celestial neighbor entering a phase of heightened activity known as a solar ...