As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

The sun has seen its most active month for over two decades, with a monthly average of 215.5 sunspots being recorded in ...

Most of us perceive time as an arrow, a one-way trip into the future. And while that’s true, nature has a way of interpolating circular patterns onto that linear model — day follows night, the ...

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the ...

Some thought Parker was launched too early in the solar cycle to get meaningful information ... Its next close flyby of the sun will occur on June 22, 2023 when it once again gets to within ...

AMS observations highlight charged particle variations linked to solar cycles, impacting cosmic ray flux in the heliosphere.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA says that Solar Cycle 25 is already exceeding predictions. As a result, the space ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. It’s not true. Solar maximum is not confirmed to be arriving sooner ...

In looking at the data from the AMS for one solar cycle, the researchers found some trends in the number of particles that struck the sensor and how they interacted with each other. In one part of ...

The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years, which marks an important stage in the solar cycle. The shift in ...