Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers achieved most of their planned tasks on today's (May 1) 5-hour, 44-minute extravehicular ...

Using third-party ownership plans are a reasonable option to kickstart energy bill savings this spring. Here's a CNET guide ...

NASA has issued a major geostorm alert after detecting intense solar activity that could impact Earth’s satellites, communications, GPS systems, and even power grids. The public is advised to ...

Aurora displays are caused by large explosions of activity from the Sun, which throw out huge amounts of charged particles – called solar wind – into space. Massive explosions on the Sun are ...

This year marks the peak of the solar activity cycle, which occurs every 11 years. During solar activity peaks, the solar magnetic field strengthens, and sunspot activity on the solar surface ...

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The Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is more likely to have flares and coronal mass ejections, to the minimum ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has detected the chemical fingerprints of possible signs of life on a planet outside the solar system. Using data from the James Webb Space ...

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL The unexpected surge of solar activity during the ongoing solar maximum may be tied to a lesser-known, 100-year-long cycle that is just beginning to ramp up again ...

The affects are expected to be felt today, with heightened geomagnetic activity being predicted over the next few days (Picture: SDO/NASA / SWNS) A massive solar storm is set to cause massive ...

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The researchers believe the data points to a little-known phenomenon, which hides behind the 11-year cycle of ebb and flow of solar activity. This phenomenon is the Gleissberg Cycle, named after ...