The sun is not only our closest stellar neighbor, it's also the star we understand the most. As we've observed it over the ...

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

Sunspots AR3664 and AR3663 have been erupting with X- and M-class solar flares. Both sunspots are Earth-facing and could ...

While the Sun’s solar flares strongly correlate with sunspots, observations of more than 14,000 other stars show this is not generally the case.

With the Sun still in an active phase there could be more spectacular Northern light displays in the year ahead.

Learn why the Sun’s magnetic field is just as important as Earth’s and its impact on our planet.

2025 was another busy year on the sun. But how did it compare with 2024, and what will 2026 bring for solar activity and the northern lights? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Solar observers are in for an electrifying time. The total solar eclipse will grace North America on April 8th, and with our celestial neighbor entering a phase of heightened activity known as a solar ...

Adam Sherwinski & Dave Leake teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about solar flares Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation that erupt from the surface of the Sun, often near sunspots ...

The sun may be coming out of its slumber at long last. On Friday morning (May 29), our star fired off its strongest flare since October 2017, an eruption spotted by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics ...

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...