The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

What you’re looking at is a slice of the roiling, chaotic stuff between stars—the magnetised dust and gases that make up the ...

New research utilising data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...

Parker Solar Probe flying in front of the sun The solar atmosphere, or corona, is far hotter than the Sun's surface, a ...

Plasma particles coming together make this light show happen ... Scientists think that these shapes, which look like ...

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three ...

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

A succession of powerful solar eruptions in early May last year triggered the most powerful solar storm to hit Earth in 20 ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...