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In May 2024, people in Florida, Puerto Rico, and northern Mexico looked up and saw the northern lights with their naked eyes. The geomagnetic storm responsible was the strongest to hit Earth in over ...

The Sun is now at the most active point in its roughly 11‑year solar cycle, and scientists say the current peak has arrived earlier and more forcefully than first expected. As activity climbs, ...

It appears as though the solar maximum has occurred in this solar cycle. NOAA has updated the forecast for the rest of Solar Cycle 25. A solar cycle lasts on average 11 years from bottom to peak and ...

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. This peak is anticipated around mid to late ...

In this handout photo provided by NASA, an MDI image shows giant sunspots 486 and 488. Credit: NASA via Getty Images Beyond their love of radio, amateur radio operators and shortwave radio ...

In 1859, the Earth experienced the strongest space weather event ever documented: a solar storm that set telegraphs on fire ...

The Northern Lights may ramp up in intensity for the next 50 years as the sun potentially enters a new long-term phase of heightened activity, suggests a new study by solar scientists. The night sky ...

A solar flare imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2024. (NASA SDO) Scientists have just realized that surface measurements of the Sun's radiant activity haven't captured its full story.