Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. It’s not true. Solar maximum is not confirmed to be arriving sooner than expected. Years ago this peak in the sun’s activity ...

NASA recently announced that as of late October, the Sun has reached solar maximum: a repeating crescendo of solar activity that often comes with increased solar flares. True to form, it seems ...

Now that the sun has officially reached its solar maximum, per NASA, skygazers across the world should expect the auroras to blanket the night sky more often across the Northern Hemisphere.

During the approaching peak, or the solar maximum, these sunspots multiply, which means we can expect more solar flares and coronal mass ejections and thus, more instances of the northern lights.

As our sun waxes towards it’s once-every-11 -years “solar maximum,” fears about how increased solar activity could affect our increasingly technological society abound. On Neptune far out in ...

Now that the sun has officially reached its solar maximum, per NASA, skygazers across the world should expect the auroras to blanket the night sky more often across the Northern Hemisphere. So, how ...