Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the ...

Stunning imagery from outer space shows the power of the Sun, with a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from the giant star’s surface, but space experts say there is no need to ...

Once-rare displays of Northern Lights at southerly latitudes look set to continue for the foreseeable future as scientists confirmed that August saw the sun at its most active for 23 years. The sun's ...

The Sun is a complex physical body. It generates incredible amounts of heat and a strong, often tangled, magnetic field.

A team of researchers who had previously issued an alternative solar forecast that turned out to be better than NASA's claims the sun's activity will peak next year. When you purchase through links on ...

Indian scientists have identified a precise solar activity threshold—about 67% of the sunspot cycle peak—at which space junk and satellites in low Earth orbit lose altitude much faster. The discovery, ...

Scientists have found that extreme solar activity drastically compresses the magnetosphere and modifies the composition of ions in near-Earth space. They are now looking to model how these changes ...