Observing an eclipse of the sun is always fascinating, but on March 29, 2025 — when a partial solar eclipse is visible in the Northern Hemisphere — there will be an extra reason to do so. As well as ...

Sunspots AR3664 and AR3663 have been erupting with X- and M-class solar flares. Both sunspots are Earth-facing and could ...

NASA has detected a large grouping of sunspots — dark patches on the sun — known as AR3576, which have increased in size in the last month and could be a risk for strong solar flares. Solar flares, ...

All you need to do is make sure solar filters and eclipse glasses are free of marks, scratches, and holes. If they're still safe to use, you can wear them to watch the sunspot groups grow, decay, and ...

With a techniques borrowed from earthquake detection, researchers are learning to predict where sunspots will boil-up. That ...

A whopping sunspot that is getting larger and crackling with activity threatens to flash powerful solar flares in our planet's direction. The sunspot, named AR3780, appears to be getting bigger and ...

The solar cycle continues to ramp up with currently the largest number of sunspots in the last two decades and maybe even longer. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center(SWPC) reports the estimated ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been tracking an enormous sunspot group, with real-time images of the sun. Credit: NASA NASA scientists studying the sun have detected an enormous group of ...

The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms' on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward ...