"The reason we are seeing them so far south and with so much intensity is that as the sun reaches its maximum activity it ...

In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is predicting that the Sunspot Cycle that started this fall could be ...

Like you and I the sun has cycles. None of us escapes the day-night rhythm of sleep and wakefulness. The most visible of the sun's rhythms is the 11 year solar cycle also called the sunspot cycle.

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 ...

How can 400-year-old sunspot drawings help modern-day scientists with solar cycles? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international team ...

WASHINGTON — When the sun sneezes, it's Earth that gets sick. It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical ...

A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM ...

Federal forecasters are warning of a severe solar storm through Tuesday that potentially threatens satellites, orbital communications and some infrastructure. The warning follows a volley of solar ...

WASHINGTON – When the sun sneezes it's Earth that gets sick. It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical ...