You could get more opportunities to see supercharged auroras over the next few months, thanks to our very active sun. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle. The current cycle, known ...

Welcome to your primer on Solar Cycle 25. For as long as scientists have ... essentially when the sunspot number reaches its local low. The number of sunspots increases over the first half of ...

Even if the specific monthly peak of the cycle has passed, it doesn't mean solar activity is over. Strong solar activity persists for a year or two beyond the maximum date, so we still have some time ...

A rarely observed solar pattern—known as the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle (CGC)—may have just “restarted,” according to ...

Cycle 25 is so far shaping up to be quite an active one especially of late, which popular media are describing as bombarding us with flares from a “sunspot archipelago” and the more measured ...

Scientists suspect Solar Cycle 25 may have already peaked early—with a surprise double peak possibly underway. Sunspot surges ...

From this graph, we can see that Solar Cycle 25 (from 2019 to present) has already exceeded the size of Solar Cycle 24. The largest individual sunspot month of the cycle so far, August 2024, had a ...

NOAA ISES solar cycle sunspot numbers from 2010 to present, revealing the evolution of solar cycles 24 and 25 (to date). Black dots mark monthly data points, and the purple line shows the smoothed ...