The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar cycle might be heading toward its quieter phase.

In early February 2026 the sun erupted with an extraordinary series of powerful solar flares, including a particularly intense X-class outburst that stands among the strongest observed in decades and ...

The sun’s activity is escalating far beyond scientist’s predictions, Nasa has warned, resulting in more solar storms, flares and space weather events. Solar activity typically follows an 11-year cycle ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have usedrare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent structures of the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. This discovery, ...

“Here comes the sun” never sounded so ominous. The sun is putting on a superheated fireworks display. Our solar system’s light source just unleashed four powerful solar flares between Feb 1 and2, ...

We all rely on the sun to supply our planet with light and warmth, but despite it being vital to our continued existence, there's a lot that scientists still don't know about it. A new study has ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, NASA researchers reveal that the Sun — long believed to be drifting into a historic lull — has instead been ramping up its activity since ...

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NASA scientists are warning that the sun may be "waking up" from a brief period of relative inactivity, contradicting past assumptions about our home star. If true, this could mean that decades of ...

The Sun’s most violent flares are turning out to be even more extreme than I, or many solar physicists, had imagined. By tracking how these eruptions light up the high‑energy sky, researchers have ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? Current definitions define a star as a body that generates its own energy. While humans have relied on the sun for hundreds of thousands of years, it's only in the last ...