On Aug. 8, the number of sunspots observed on the Sun peaked at 337, the highest total in a 24-hour period since March 2001. More sunspots can also result in more solar flares ...

Our Sun has a case of chickenpox. The past few nights have been prime opportunities to witness something we call “sunspots”, splotches of black dots on the surface of the Sun. There are over a ...

The size and number of spots indicate our home star is fast approaching solar maximum. Dark spots on the Sun soar to 23-year high Experts record a record-breaking number of sunspots on the surface ...

Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th ...

Last fall, NASA's Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun — and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth.

The sun has more spots this year. Sunspots are the sites of powerful magnetic storms where plasma wells up and falls back to the surface. They show up as darker spots because they are slightly ...

S unspots, which are temporarily darkened areas on the surface of the sun, are the result of intense magnetic fields generated through the movement of materials within the sun. In other words ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever to the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles ...

Like most Floridians, you’re probably overexposed to ultraviolet (UV) rays — and the result can be sun damage. Dark spots, freckles, hyperpigmentation and wrinkles appear, and they tend to be ...

The solar lightshow took place roughly 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) above a sunspot — a magnetically warped dark patch on our star's surface. Astronomers on Earth detected the bursts of ...

The sun has a shockingly huge spot on it right now. ... sunspot AR3190 is an attention-seeking blob on the surface of our star — so big you can currently see it whenever the sun is shining.

The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI), one of six instruments onboard the spacecraft, imaged the granules on the sun's surface, which are large, turbulent cells of plasma, each spanning ...