For more than two decades, a global network of telescopes has been eavesdropping on the sun by tracking millions of tiny ...

The Sun’s 11-year cycle still drives flares, aurorae, and geomagnetic storms, but the machinery under that familiar rhythm ...

The agencies that track sunspot activity say we’re now in peak solar activity, which has a big impact on the amount and southward extent of the Northern Lights. On Oct. 15, 2024 NOAA, NASA and the ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go around Earth in a low orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

When the Sun reaches higher levels of activity, junk drifting in low Earth orbit loses altitude at an increased rate — and for the first time, scientists have measured that increase and identified ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yeimy J. Rivera, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) When you look up at the ...

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...

It's getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX's Starlink and other players in the ...

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The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...

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