Sunspots are dark spots on the skin that appear after you experience too much ultraviolet (UV) light exposure. Also called age spots, liver spots, or solar lentigines, sunspots are a type of ...

This magnetism was strongest in dark regions called sunspots. In the 17th century, Galileo used the newly developed telescope to reveal that the sun was blemished with spots. He observed many of ...

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

Perhaps it’s time to take a look. The solar cycle refers to the 11-year period of solar activity from a maximum of observed sunspots through a minimum to a new maximum. The sunspots are the ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while ...

Another display of the northern lights could be visible this weekend in several U.S. states following a severe solar storm.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

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The sun showed a witchier face in 2024. Since 2020, its dark, warty sunspots have increased in number from fewer than one per ...

World Weather, Inc. has used the 11-year and 22-year solar cycle as a leading tool in the prediction of general weather ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up. But it was not from fireflies or a fireswamp.