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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officially, solar maximum is defined as the peak month of a given solar cycle, based on monthly sunspot numbers. More specifically ...

BOULDER–Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...

The first rumblings of the sun's next 11-year solar cycle have been detected in sound waves inside our home star—even though it is only halfway through its current one. This existing cycle is now at ...

After causing the dazzling waves of aurora borealis this weekend, our Sun isn’t done yet: The strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle occurred Tuesday afternoon, according to the National ...

Internal changes due to the sun's "active biorhythm" have become increasingly "skin-deep" over the past four solar activity cycles, according to a new study. Publishing its findings in Monthly Notices ...

The Sun runs on an internal clock that turns over roughly every 11 years, swinging from calm to turbulent and back again. The current cycle, the 25th since systematic record-keeping began, climbed to ...

The Sun runs on an eleven-year rhythm, swinging from quiet stretches to stormy peaks and back again, and forecasting where that cycle is headed has long been one of the harder problems in space ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Despite only being halfway through our current solar cycle, the sun is ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Our sun has officially hit its solar maximum, with increased rates of ...

The solar cycle can be irregular, but some patterns might be trackable—enough to provide a heads-up before extreme weather events. Reading time 3 minutes We’ve monitored the Sun’s cycles for centuries ...

The first rumblings of the Sun's next 11-year solar cycle have been detected in sound waves inside our home star -- even though it is only halfway through its current one. This existing cycle is now ...