Of these stronger cycles perhaps the most famous was solar cycle 10, when in September 1859 the strongest recorded storm was observed. Dubbed the Carrington event after the astronomer who ...

There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of solar maximum was a key reason for the spike, but other factors were also at ...

A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' ...

On Oct. 10-11, another wave of widespread auroras ... which was a record for the current solar cycle at the time. None of these flares launched CMEs. However, they did unleash waves of radiation ...

The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years, which marks an important stage in the solar cycle. The shift in polarity marks the point at which the sun is halfway through solar maximum ...