Sunspots are temporary, dark regions on the sun's surface caused by concentrated magnetic activity, which inhibits the flow ...

A minor geomagnetic storm is forecast for Wednesday March 5. Chances remain strong for seeing the aurora borealis in the months ahead.

The sun has just spat out the strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle, which began in 2019, according to a breaking report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA ...

The solar cycle refers to the 11-year period of solar activity from a maximum of observed sunspots through a minimum ... hit the atmosphere an electrical current starts flowing in the direction ...

“At each sunspot minimum, the Sun is wiped almost completely clean of spots, which gives the impression that the Sun repeatedly returns to the same low activity state every 11 years or so,” he ...