Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the ...

Once-rare displays of Northern Lights at southerly latitudes look set to continue for the foreseeable future as scientists confirmed that August saw the sun at its most active for 23 years. The sun's ...

The ongoing Solar Cycle 25 began in 2019 with a quieter Sun and is predicted to end around 2030. A solar cycle is roughly an 11-year period of the Sun's magnetic activity, from quiet (minimum) to ...

Solar activity as a research area focuses on the study of time-varying phenomena originating from the Sun’s magnetic field, including sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections, solar wind variability, ...

When the Sun reaches higher levels of activity, junk drifting in low Earth orbit loses altitude at an increased rate — and for the first time, scientists have measured that increase and identified ...

When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the Sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the Sun is a complex, dynamic celestial body, wrapped in electrical currents and magnetic ...