Weather on Earth can be wild, but it's not the only kind of weather we have to deal with. Space weather — all the winds and particles streaming off the sun — can have major impacts on Earth and human ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

The new year could bring a new center for the study of solar physics to the University of Arizona - or the loss of 60 high-paying scientific jobs in solar astronomy in Tucson. The UA is competing with ...

On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall in Auburn Hills — stands a hidden landmark to the history of science, astronomy and ...

First Light! The spectro-polarimeter of the world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii looks at the Sun for the first time. The instrument was developed in Germany A narrow-band image of the Sun at a ...

Solar physicists have revealed how swirling plasma flows around sunspots 1, sculpted by the same Coriolis force that drives Earth's weather systems, shape the Sun’s rotation just beneath its surface.

New Mexico is famous for its kitschy, alien-themed attractions at historic sites like Roswell. However, some people don't realize that New Mexico is also full of stunning natural vistas like White ...

By combining observations from two space missions, scientists were able to follow one exceptionally active region on the Sun ...

ISRO's Aditya-L1 reveals how solar storms affect Earth's magnetic field, enhancing understanding of space weather impacts.

The "milestone in solar physics" will help scientists better understand space weather and its impact on our tech-dependent ...