Scientists decode Johannes Kepler’s 417-year-old sunspot drawings, solving a long-standing mystery about solar cycles and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather ...

On August 19, 2022, solar astronomers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on the Hawaiian island of Maui ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...

Has the Sun’s activity increased or decreased in the last few years? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated ...

From the 1980s thru 2008, scientists observed that nuclear activity inside the Sun was continuously trending downward, and it was expected that this would continue. However, a new study by the ...

European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter was launched in 2020 It studies solar activity cycle, magnetic field, solar wind The European Space Agency on Wednesday released images taken in March using ...

Cosmogenic radionuclides, such as 14C and 10Be, are produced in Earth’s atmosphere by interactions with cosmic rays and offer a unique window into past solar variability. Their deposition in natural ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have discovered new large-scale waves moving deep inside the sun, driven by magnetic fields far below the surface. These waves provide a window into parts of the sun that ...

Learn how scientists are combining Medieval literature and modern scientific techniques to study space weather.

Solar activity, manifested primarily through sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, has long influenced both the near-space environment and terrestrial systems. Over millennia, variations ...