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The unexpected surge of solar activity during the ongoing solar maximum may be tied to a lesser-known, 100-year-long cycle that is just beginning to ramp up again, a new study suggests. If that's true ...

In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is predicting that the Sunspot Cycle that started this fall could be ...

The solar cycle continues to ramp up with currently the largest number of sunspots in the last two decades and maybe even longer. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center(SWPC) reports the estimated ...

Greetings stargazers. The current sunspot cycle maximum continues to amaze. Several times during the past year, the Aurora ...

The sun covered in hundreds of sunspots in a time-lapse image of June The sun is partying like it's 2002. The number of observed sunspots on our home star last month was the highest for almost 21 ...

With several solar flares and coronal mass ejections soaring out into space, the sun has had an active few months as the current solar cycle gathers momentum. This solar cycle, Solar Cycle 25, is ...

An X7.1 (R3) solar flare erupted from Region 3842 this evening - as seen in this animation (courtesy of jhelioviewer). This was the second strongest flare of Solar ...

The Sun has snapped into a hyperactive mood, unleashing a rapid-fire sequence of powerful eruptions just as a volatile ...

It's not likely, but not impossible, we'll see any major activity as we leave the low end of the current sunspot cycle and enter the slow climb to the peak of a new one. That's one of the mysteries of ...