When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sun has been gradually gaining strength as it nears its highest rate of activity — solar ...

A surprise announcement from scientists involved in monitoring the solar cycle has finally confirmed that the sun's most active and dangerous phase — solar maximum — is already well underway, and ...

We explore the latest solar maximum predictions and look into why it could be a couple of years before we can confidently state when solar maximum occurred. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A solar physicist who accurately predicted that the sun's explosive peak would arrive sooner — and be more powerful — than originally forecast tells Live Science that it may have already begun.

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...