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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We are currently midway through Solar Cycle 25, the 25th solar cycle since the naming convention began back with Solar Cycle 1 in ...

A vast, volatile blemish has opened on the face of the Sun, and it is already rewriting the current solar cycle’s record book. The decade’s largest sunspot, a complex tangle of magnetism more than ten ...

A powerful solar storm could spark auroras as far south as northern California and Alabama on Wednesday, thanks to a particularly rambunctious area on the sun dubbed active region 4274 (AR4274). In ...

Scientists charged with predicting the sun's activity for the next 11-year solar cycle say that it's likely to be weak, much like the current one. The current solar cycle, Cycle 24, is declining and ...

A team of scientists from around the world has created the first system that can predict when and where extremely powerful solar storms, called superflares, are most likely to happen. These storms can ...

Last week was a “wild” week in solar flares. While the current active solar cycle is in full force, measured as an 11-year period, the sun unleashed a series of solar flares, with a spectacular ...