Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

Peer up at the ... impact on our Solar System and offer the potential to gain new insights into our place within it. The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat ...

Here's everything to know about the northern lights and how to see them now that the sun has reached its solar maximum: The northern lights explode up into ... to be our solar system's largest ...

A reliable early warning system would thus be ... arch-like structures in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona—in the lead-up to 50 intense solar flares. Coronal loops exist in ...

Traditional methods which rely on human analysis of solar images and data, often provide less accurate and timely forecasts.

Our solar system resides in a unique ... they formed from material swept up during the bubble’s early formation. Co-author ...

A graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama system, has published a paper in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics that builds on ...

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This intense heat causes the sun to continuously emit a stream of plasma, made up of charged subatomic ... than previous models. His model could be applied to solar storms that impact technology ...