Solar activity, manifested primarily through sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, has long influenced both the near-space environment and terrestrial systems. Over millennia, variations ...

Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena. The entire disc of the sun captured on ...

Climate data in a report published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate.gov website found that the sun’s solar activity, including overall brightness and sunspot ...

People in the U.S. were treated to stunning auroras last week when a powerful geomagnetic storm pushed the celestial displays as far south as Florida and Mexico. The spectacle was particularly ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...

The Sun seems like a perfectly reliable, unchanging presence in the daytime sky, but it’s not. Intense heat and pressure in its core fuses hydrogen atoms into helium, fueling the cosmic fire that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. In the past ...

One way to track the solar cycle is by counting the number of sunspots, which are dark, cooler patches on the Sun’s surface.

Auroras may be visible across higher-latitude regions tonight, Jan. 12, as Earth continues to feel the after-shock of recent ...

As the year turns and Earth dips out of the “solar maximum," will Oregonians continue to have chances to see the northern ...

SynergyRED has secured environmental approval for a 2GW solar, wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) project in ...