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

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

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.

“Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed,” Elaine Ramstad, an aurora chaser who’s family works a farm in northern ...

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 ...

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

It was an active year from tornadoes, wind, snow and space weather for Indiana. We look back at the top 10 biggest moments in the sky for 2024.

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

NASA has yet to make an official statement on the matter, leaving people to wonder whether the digital age will be able to ...

This year was full of stories that gripped the attention of the nation, from back-to-back hurricanes to a rare total solar ...

The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged ...

The largest solar storm on record lit up skies around the globe in the 1850s - but New Zealand, a technological backwater, escaped the worst of it.