The Sun goes through 11-year cycles during which the number of sunspots and the intensity of solar activity increase and reach a peak, bringing the highest likelihood of intense solar storms.

Every 11 years, activity on the Sun peaks. More sunspots, prominences, flares, and other phenomena are seen on our star's face, plus, there's an uptick in visible aurorae here on Earth. This time ...

ET, sunspot region 4114 released an X.12 class solar flare that caused a radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean, including ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

According to spaceweather.com, the sunspot region 4114 released multiple flares within 24 hours, but they were in the M-class ...

A massive eruption on the Sun has prompted NASA to issue a warning that it could trigger communication and power disruptions here on Earth. Space weather experts confirmed a signif ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

The Sun is the angriest it's been in a while – and it's taking out that rage on the thousands of tiny satellites that make up SpaceX's Starlink fleet.

NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

The Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to study the Sun's poles - and finds the magnetic field in a state of flip ...

which flips from south to north and back again every 11 years in what is called the solar cycle. The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as ...