Massive solar flares, graceful eruptions of solar material, and an enormous sunspot make up some of the imagery captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2013 and 2014. A year ago this weekend, ...

It's not just humans that are to blame for global warming - natural activity from the sun also has an impact on climate change. This is according to a Swedish research team that has reconstructed the ...

After a calm week, the sun erupted again. A powerful M5.1 solar flare burst from an emerging sunspot region, shaking the ...

Scientists say the sun could be waking up for a period of increased solar flare activity, after having been relatively quiet for the past few years. A new family of sunspots was discovered on the ...

The Sun has just unleashed an M5-class solar flare, a powerful burst of radiation that signals a clear uptick in solar activity as the current cycle heads toward its peak. While this event is not the ...

Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. As the sun nears the peak of its current ...

The sun is due for an awakening that would create extreme space weather that could have catastrophic effects– and experts may have a way to predict the event. Using 200 years of observations, ...

As the UK faces extreme heat and weather warnings amid the climate crisis, with Dr Nikos Christidis, climate attribution scientist at the Met Office saying: “Climate change has already influenced the ...

In recent weeks we have seen surprisingly high solar activity, with sunspot readings over 100 on multiple days, shown below, red line. Underlying Source: Jan Alvestad To understand how high these ...

Scientists say we are in the middle of a period of heightened solar activity that could increase the number of phenomena such as flares, coronal mass ejections and geomagnetic storms. A large hole ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...