According to Dr. Mike Nowak, a researcher at Washington University, the sun’s activity follows an 11-year cycle, with the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. It’s not true. Solar maximum is not confirmed to be arriving sooner than expected. Years ago this peak in the sun’s activity ...

The explosive peak in the sun's roughly 11-year cycle of activity — known as the solar maximum — is already well underway, scientists have announced. While many experts suspected that this was ...

The Sun is now at the solar maximum – an increased period of activity that can impact everyday life on Earth. According to Jamie Favors, head of NASA's Space Weather Program, solar maximum is ...

NASA recently announced that as of late October, the Sun has reached solar maximum: a repeating crescendo of solar activity that often comes with increased solar flares. True to form, it seems ...

This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the night sky, and that's expected to continue as the sun is now in its solar ...

The sun, and the intense magnetic activity it generates that causes the northern lights, waxes and wanes on an 11-year-long solar cycle that is at its maximum. Because NASA anticipates the solar ...