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

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

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 ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

The sun is reaching a solar maximum. Here's what that could mean for Iowa and our chances to see the aurora borealis, known ...

Eleven-Year Cycle. The astronomers will be part of a “solar patrol” established to warn astronauts against possible danger from the sun, which by 1968 or 1969 should reach a peak in its eleven ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

The collapse of a cloud core can be triggered by many factors. One theory is that our Sun’s formation was initiated by a nearby supernova explosion. During this collapse, the central gas and ...

The Laboratory of Solar Astronomy at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that this black cloud of plasma flowed from the Sun's corona and gradually dissipated ...