When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. These processes follow the solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of increasing and decreasing activity on ...

We know that the sun has entered its peak phase of activity, called solar maximum. But are we still in it, or is solar maximum already behind us? Let's see what the data has to say. However, the ...

Our sun has officially hit its solar maximum, with increased rates of auroras and solar flares expected in the coming months, NASA has announced. The sun goes through 11-year cycles of activity, ...

"Almost all cycles, if not every cycle… they all have these last gasps during the declining phase," Skov said. "Typically, the last gasp will come within about two to three years before solar minimum.

Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar ...

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At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new study says that the Sun’s activity actually reversed course around 2008. This ...

Every morning, astronomer Steve Padilla takes a short walk from his home to the base of a tower that soars 150 feet above the ground. Tucked in the San Gabriel Mountains, about an hour’s drive north ...

Climate data in a report published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate.gov website found that the sun’s solar activity, including overall brightness and sunspot ...

This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (on the right, captured in December 2019).

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The intensity of the Sun’s activity ebbs and flows across years, but also across decades—a behavior that scientists haven’t quite figured out yet. At ...