It's getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX's Starlink and other players in the ...

Images of the far-side of the sun taken by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter of a giant sunspot region makes aurora ...

A new study links the sun's 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near their cycle peak.

Sunspots are planet-sized regions on the sun's surface that have increased magnetic shields and often appear dark or black on the surface of our star. These spots are often the originating point of ...

On May 29, 2020, a family of sunspots — dark spots that freckle the face of the Sun, representing areas of complex magnetic fields — sported the biggest solar flare since October 2017. Although the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The 2022 hurricane season has been off to an unusually slow start. In fact, we've observed the third biggest gap between named storm systems since the weather satellite era going ...

NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory has unveiled a mesmerizing sight in the depths of space as the Sun, our celestial neighbor, experiences an extraordinary surge in sunspot activity. Surpassing all ...

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Update, Feb. 3 at 11 a.m. ET: The monster sunspot region 4366 is now facing Earth, and shows no signs of weakening. It is the most active sunspot of the current solar cycle (cycle 25). NOAA predicts ...

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