The Sun is much more than just a source of light for Earth – it’s a dynamic and complex star, with storms, flares, and movement causing it to change constantly. Magnetic fields govern most of the ...

In 1612, astronomer Galileo Galilei observed dark splotches can sunspots moving across the face of the sun. A new study could reveal the engine that drives these cloudy features, and much of the sun's ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The sun's magnetic field, which causes solar storms like the one that hit Earth this month and produced beautiful auroras, may originate at shallower depths in the ...

A whopping sunspot that is getting larger and crackling with activity threatens to flash powerful solar flares in our planet's direction. The sunspot, named AR3780, appears to be getting bigger and ...

Groundbreaking images of the Sun captured by scientists at NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) give a first-ever detailed view of the interior structure of umbrae — the dark patches in the center ...

On Aug. 8, NASA scientists may have spotted a record number of sunspots when hundreds of individual spots were estimated to occur within 24 hours. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A team of Japanese and Belgian astronomers has re-examined the sunspot drawings made by 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler with modern analytical techniques. By doing so, they resolved a ...

Foliage gaps can act as natural pinhole cameras, projecting images of the Sun onto a surface, even displaying full solar disks on non-eclipse days. The clarity of projected sunspots depends on the ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been tracking an enormous sunspot group, with real-time images of the sun. Credit: NASA NASA scientists studying the sun have detected an enormous group of ...