Brace yourselves, Earthlings: NASA, the NOAA, and the Solar Cycle Prediction Panel have officially declared that solar maximum is now underway. What does that mean? Our Sun is reaching the peak of its ...

Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar ...

Scientists have long studied the sun, our solar system’s life-giving star, trying to understand its behavior, solar flares, ...

Images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory highlight the appearance of the Sun at solar minimum (left, Dec. 2019) versus solar maximum (right, May 2024). These images are in the 171 wavelength of ...

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Scientists predict the next solar activity cycle will be 30 to 50 percent stronger than the previous one and up to a year late. Accurately predicting the sun’s cycles will help plan for the effects of ...

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, ...

During this solar cycle, which is measured as an 11-year period, the sun unleashed the strongest solar flare to date. Solar cycle 25 began in December 2019 and is now approaching solar maximum, NASA ...

The sun emitted another strong solar flare on Tuesday – the largest flare in the solar cycle, according to air and space experts. NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, ...

NASA has taken to its blog to confirm the Sun has now reached the peak of its 11-year solar cycle, meaning we can expect a lot more activity out of our local star. The space agency informed reporters ...

Kepler's sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "Half-forgotten" sunspot ...

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at the ...