Every morning, astronomer Steve Padilla takes a short walk from his home to the base of a tower that soars 150 feet above the ground. Tucked in the San Gabriel Mountains, about an hour’s drive north ...

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 as ...

SEATTLE — 2024 has been the year of the Aurora Borealis, and another spectacular show fired off around the globe recently. Photographers can't stop themselves from capturing the beautiful sky colors.

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A rarely observed solar pattern—known as the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle (CGC)—may have just “restarted,” according to scientists monitoring long-term solar trends. If confirmed, this transition could ...

PORTLAND (WGME)--- One year ago, Mainers were treated to a spectacular aurora borealis display, sparked by the most powerful solar storm since 1989. That storm, which occurred on the night of May 11, ...

A complete survey of all the particle and antiparticle activity that goes on during the Sun’s 11-year cycle has found previously unknown ways these particles behave. Cosmic rays coming from outside ...

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 ...

On November 11, 2025, people across the United States looked up in awe. The northern lights, usually reserved for places like Canada and Alaska, were instead visible as far south as Alabama and ...

To reconstruct the Sun’s polar magnetic behavior over more than 100 years, an SwRI scientist first corrected anomalies in historical data from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO) to sync with direct ...