The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be the life giver that she is...

Plasma from the year’s strongest Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) yet has been hurtling toward Earth since the early morning hours of April 11, when it blasted out from the sun at 600 m...

The sun got into the Saint Patrick’s Day act by hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) straight at Mother Earth a couple of days earlier...

Astronomers and physicists have been saying it for years: At some point, the increased sun activity during the peak of its current 11-year cycle is going to get a glob of plasma th...

The roiling, fiery disk that is our Mother Earth’s life-giving star whipped out a gigantic filament a couple of days ago that lashed out like a dragon tail, as NASA’s scientists ni...

It’s no secret that the sun is getting feistier. With solar maximum scheduled to peak over the next year or two, the sunspots are forming and erupting faster and more frequently...

The sun is full of surprises: In what is perhaps a display of the feistiness that is destined to increase over the next couple of years until peaking in 2013–14 , it recently launc...

The major solar storms and resulting auroras of mid-July are but a taste of things to come as the sun reaches its maximum level of outbursts in its cycle...

Instruments of the U.S...

So far in 2012 we’ve seen flaming aurora borealis displays associated with increased solar activity , with even better to come in the next year or two...