The Aurora Borealis stunned the nation last year, with dazzling light displays being visible as far south as Dorset, Essex, Cambridgeshire ...

Scientists are keeping a close eye on the sun. We know that the sun goes through cycles of activity, and 2025 is expected to ...

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

In Raleigh, the earliest sunrise of 2025 occurred June 12 at 5:57 a.m., while sunsets will continue shifting later by a few ...

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

Massive solar flares, graceful eruptions of solar material and an enormous sunspot make up some of the imagery captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2013 and 2014.

We know that the sun has entered its peak phase of activity, called solar maximum. But are we still in it, or is solar maximum already behind us? Let's see what the data has to say. Although we cannot ...

graph showing sunspot numbers rising and falling during a number of solar cycles. What we do know is that Solar Cycle 25’s peak has already surpassed that of Solar Cycle 24, which peaked in 2014.

The fast-growing sunspot, a region dubbed AR3842, erupted Tuesday evening, producing the second-strongest solar flare thus far in Solar Cycle 25. A solar flare is a strong eruption of high-energy ...

Scientists analyzed famed astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 1607 sketches of sunspots to solve a mystery about the sun’s solar cycle that has persisted for centuries. CNN values your feedback 1.

"Half-forgotten" sunspot drawings by Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler are showing us more about how the sun's cycle of activities work. Kepler (1571-1630), who was born in what we now call ...