More northern U.S. states are expected to see aurora borealis Monday night as an incoming geomagnetic storm is expected to affect Earth’s magnetic field, according to the National Oceanic and ...

Also a few years after solar maximum was the “Halloween Storm” of Oct. 31, 2003 when an X35-class struck, causing auroras as far south as Texas and Florida. It’s for this reason that solar ...

Scientists are worried that once solar ... original state. During this cycle, magnetic bands emerge at the sun's poles and slowly travel to the sun's equator. During each solar maximum, a new ...

The peak of activity – the solar maximum – occurs when the sun's north and south magnetic poles flip. When that happens, the sun "transitions from being calm to an active and stormy state ...

The shift in polarity marks the point at which the sun is halfway through solar maximum ... which the sun's magnetic field reverses and then reverts to its original state, Ryan French, a solar ...