The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region.

You've got a new brown spot on your face, but is it a freckle or a sunspot? Or perhaps you've found a spot on your back that ...

Even if the specific monthly peak of the cycle has passed, it doesn't mean solar activity is over. Strong solar activity ...

Space experts are watching a sunspot region known as AR4046 which recently produced a significant solar flare and coronal mass ejection that had the potential to be as significant as the solar storm ...

An unexpected X-class solar flare from a new sunspot region caused widespread radio blackouts across the Americas today ...

At the bottom of this solar cycle, called solar minimum, months can pass without a single sunspot. At the peak of the cycle — called solar maximum — sunspots, flares and CMEs are commonplace.

From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical ...

Americans are moving a lot less than they once did, and that is a problem. While Yoni Applebaum, in his highly-publicized ...

The Met Office has updated its space weather site to alert people that the Northern Lights may be visible from parts of the ...

Colourful Northern Lights have been spotted over the UK and the Met Office says they could've visible for days. A ...