The researchers imaged the active region NOAA 13664, which triggered the strongest solar storm observed in the last twenty ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Two rare X-class solar flares from sunspot AR4274 on November 4 sent twin coronal mass ejections toward Earth, prompting NOAA ...

“It’s a milestone in solar physics,” said Ioannis Kontogiannis, a solar physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Learn about the longest observation of an active solar region, a feat that could start a path to improved solar storm ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

The sun typically goes through regular cycles of increased and decreased activity, but in recent years, it hasn't been ...

What new insights about the Sun has NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission revealed to the scientific community? This is what a recent media roundtable at the American ...

A solar cycle is a roughly 11-year periodic change in the Sun characterized by variations in the number and intensity of sunspots, as well as a flipping of its magnetic poles.

The "milestone in solar physics" will help scientists better understand space weather and its impact on our tech-dependent ...

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

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 few days, the sun ...