With a techniques borrowed from earthquake detection, researchers are learning to predict where sunspots will boil-up. That ...

In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Astronomers have released photos of huge dark patches on the sun that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cluster of sunspots 15 times the size of Earth rolled into view. These have been fizzing with activity and could send solar ...

Long before dark sunspots appear on the sun's surface, a new active region—where powerful solar eruptions can ...

Why sunspots are able to last so long has been a mystery for millenia, but a new observation technique revealed their secret. The equilibrium between magnetic fields and pressure allows the solar ...

The sun’s active sunspots—which are the cause of recent Northern Lights sightings in the U.S.—may erupt a few solar flares this weekend, and scientists recommend using solar eclipse glasses to see how ...

NASA has detected a large grouping of sunspots — dark patches on the sun — known as AR3576, which have increased in size in the last month and could be a risk for strong solar flares. Solar flares, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A whopping sunspot that is getting larger and crackling with activity ...

Sunspots — those marks that aren't freckles or moles — are signs you've spent your fair share of time soaking up the sun. "Sunspots are your skin's response to daily exposure to ultraviolet rays," ...

A cluster of sunspots has rolled into view of Earth and may send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday. The cluster includes about a dozen sunspots that are around 125,000 miles wide— about 15 ...