How accurate are past records of sunspots? In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of multinational researchers examined the historical record and found that after the unusual ...

The Sun exhibits centennial-scale activity variations and sometimes encounters grand solar minimum when solar activity becomes extremely weak and sunspots disappear for several decades. Such an ...

Sophie Maunder, executive partner at VCCP, left the agency last week, ending a tenure of more than 22 years, to launch maternity coaching company Matri. Matri will offer an 18-month program supporting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. The recent Department of Energy Report, A Critical Review of ...

Sunspots change in number depending on how much magnetic activity the solar dynamo generates. But there's not total chaos: These changes occur in a cycle, which lasts about 11 years on average. The ...

A new ice age is not actually coming. But you wouldn’t know that based on headlines from places like The Telegraph. The “reasoning” behind the headlines is that a new study suggests the Sun is headed ...

19th-century trailblazers Annie Maunder and Alice Everett finally earn due recognition for decades of largely unattributed work They charted the stars for pitiful wages, knowing their observations ...