A vast, volatile blemish has opened on the face of the Sun, and it is already rewriting the current solar cycle’s record book ...

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class ...

The flare might just inspire a display of Northern Lights even in Illinois, Oregon, Alabama, and Northern California.

The Sun is covered in dark patches bigger than Earth. A powerful flare has already erupted, with more likely coming.

For thirty years, SOHO has watched the Sun from a stable perch in space, revealing the inner workings of our star and ...

Solar scientists say 2025 could bring the most intense solar maximum in two decades, raising serious concerns about the ...

What would happen if the sun started to dim? Scientists have revealed the terrifying answer to this question, which is the subject of the upcoming science fiction blockbuster, Project Hail Mary.

Discover what happens during a solar flare: sun eruptions, coronal mass ejection impacts, and space weather effects on Earth ...

What’s interesting is that the sunspot that unleashed the X-class flare was a surprise discovery by NASA, as it developed rapidly, and has yet to be named. It's located above the aforementioned ...

For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving multiple near-catastrophic ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...