In 2029, they will launch the Solar Polar Observatory (SPO) mission that will reach the Sun and deconstruct its burning ...

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What processes provide energy to the solar wind as it travels away from the Sun and throughout the solar system? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

Magnetosheath jets are fast plasma streams that form in the region between a planet’s magnetic field and the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that come from the Sun. It’s an area of ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the latest ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...

Uranus and Neptune are the two furthest planets in the Solar System and have been visited only once by human spacecraft – by Voyager 2 over 30 years ago – so there is a lot about them that we do not ...

Researchers discover hidden solar tornadoes that can disrupt Earth's systems - revealing why current space weather warnings ...