A festive auroral display may be put on for a lucky few when coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, officially arrived in 2024, triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful ...

Rings' Experts Learn Timing of 'Cataclysmic' Solar Storm That Hit Earth Around 2687 Years Ago Scientists using their ...

As scientists continue to monitor the sun with missions like the ESA’s Solar Orbiter, they remain prepared for both the ...

By historical definition, Solar Cycle 1 occurred between 1755 and 1766, placing the sun 's current cycle in Solar Cycle 25. As of the end of 2024, we are firmly within the solar maximum period.

A display of auroras is expected to light up the skies on Christmas Day, thanks to a powerful M8.9 solar flare enroute to ...

While the G5 storm wowed observers around the world with some of the strongest auroras in 500 years, the storm was nothing short of a nightmare for farmers in the American Midwest. "Our tractors acted ...

Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the ...

In 2024, observers were treated to plenty of celestial displays that were anything but ordinary, from a total solar eclipse ...

There were high hopes for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS throughout the first part of 2024. It was a visitor from the Oort Cloud, the vast cloud of large comets that surrounds our solar system, that was on a ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.

A new study reveals a massive solar storm occurred in 664 B.C., with potential cataclysmic effects on today's technology if it happened again.