May and June 2024 saw the highest sunspot numbers on the sun since 2002, but is the peak of the solar cycle here yet? The sun follows an 11-year solar cycle of increasing and decreasing activity.

The sun has seen its most active month for over two decades, with a monthly average of 215.5 sunspots being recorded in August. This is the first time the average monthly sunspot number has exceeded ...

In recent months astronomical observatories have frequently reported huge, black spots marching across the face of the sun, seriously disturbing some kinds of radio transmission on Earth. Sunspot ...