Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?

A new study reveals solar flares can reach a staggering 108 million degrees Fahrenheit, six times hotter than previously thought. This discovery resolves a decades-old mystery about broadened spectral ...

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 ...

Have you seen the Northern Lights? They're more than just pretty colors; when you see them in Pittsburgh, there's science ...

After weeks of relative quiet, the Sun has erupted with a series of powerful solar flares, signaling a return to more active space weather conditions. Over the weekend, three M-class solar flares were ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

A trio of space missions just launched, set to deepen our understanding of the sun's influence and protect Earth from the ...

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This satellite will play a critical role in detecting solar storms before they reach Earth, giving scientists, satellite ...

However, the latest research published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters indicates a significant reversal in solar activity since 2008. Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA's Jet ...

This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, who found that the positively charged ions in solar flares—one of the two key components of solar plasma—can be ...