The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; we’re experiencing a particularly busy one right now.

In addition to the 11-year sunspot cycle that most people are familiar with, the sun also has a longer 22-year "Hale cycle," which is the time it takes for our home star's magnetic field to flip ...

Many attempts have been made to establish similar connexions between meteorological phenomena and the sunspot cycle, but only within recent years has it been possible to record indisputable ...

Cycle 25 is so far shaping up to be quite an active one especially of late, which popular media are describing as bombarding us with flares from a “sunspot archipelago” and the more measured ...

CHARLOTTE, USA - MAY 10: A view of an unusual sun activity created a sunspot, that is responsible ... especially as this solar cycle is thought by many to be a year or more away from ...

However, it appears that as we approach the next solar maximum, this solar cycle may be one of the most energetic on record.

Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a phase of the solar cycle dubbed the "battle zone." Solar maximum has only ...

Then, in 1715, they mysteriously started to appear again. In the period since, sunspots have come and gone on a cycle that appears to be about 11 years long, referred to as the solar cycle ...