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 ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

Could the expected solar flares bring a greater chance of seeing the northern lights? Sophia Herod takes a look.

The 500,000-mile wide hole has cracked open the sun's atmosphere, leaving a gap over 62 times the diameter of Earth from ...

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

The Sun's surface is a highly active region in the Solar System, with fissures opening up regularly that affect us on Earth.

Oct. 3, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the Sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past.

The solar wind escaping from this coronal hole — the diameter of which measures over 62 times that of the diameter of Earth — ...

A vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere, sending high-speed magnetic tradition towards the ...

Did you know that the Sun has a magnetic field just as Earth does? And, every 11 years its polarity changes direction. This is known as a 'flip' - marking the point at which the Sun is halfway ...