"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.

Coronal holes are areas where the sun’s magnetic field opens up, allowing solar wind to flow freely into space, according to ...

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

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

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

Social media users excel at raising questions that challenge your belief system regarding human intelligence. The questions ...

Johannes Kepler fitted an ellipse model of Mars' orbit to observations of Mars," Bloomer told Space.com. "He came up with the first law of planetary motion that states that planets orbit the sun ...

Shining loops of plasma on the surface of the sun "flicker" hours before they unleash potentially dangerous solar flares, a new study shows. The new findings could help create more reliable space ...

At the Winter Solstice, the sun travels the shortest path through ... This pole represents the Earth's axis and is poking out into space from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, according ...

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 ...