"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." The sun, for all its glitz, tends to hide behind a veil of mystery.

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive 'tornado' on the sun in multiple wavelengths. Unlike the Earth, ...

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

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter ...

Social media users excel at raising questions that challenge your belief system regarding human intelligence. The questions you find on social media range from contemplative to humorous but they ...

Eyes on the Sun: Naked Thallium-205 Ion Decay Reveals ... Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...