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 ...

A solar flare imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2024. (NASA SDO) Scientists have just realized that surface ...

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 ...

The agencies that track sunspot activity say we’re now in peak solar activity, which has a big impact on the amount and southward extent of the Northern Lights. On Oct. 15, 2024 NOAA, NASA and the ...

NOAA’s latest reporting shows Solar Cycle 25 with multiple numbered sunspot regions and generally low solar activity, alongside forecasts for quiet to unsettled geomagnetic conditions. NASA’s SPHEREx ...

Scientists have discovered the Sun has been undergoing systematic changes in its internal solar activity over the past few ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The night sky in Wisconsin glows with the Northern Lights as ...

For more than two decades, a global network of telescopes has been eavesdropping on the sun by tracking millions of tiny ...

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 ...

After months of intense solar flares, NASA confirms that the Sun has reached the most active period of its cycle. Reading time 3 minutes The Sun has been acting up, and we can finally confirm why.