"They can penetrate metal on satellites, hit circuit boards, and can be carcinogenic if they hit a person in space." ...

Earth's auroras result from solar winds interacting with the magnetosphere, creating light displays in vivid colors based on ...

The solar maximum, part of the Sun's 11-year natural cycle, is characterised by heightened magnetic activity, which can ...

1. Captured on June 20, 2013, this image shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the Sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the Sun’s atmosphere, called a ...

A satellite designed to investigate solar wind completed all its development work in China, marking a new milestone of the ...

Encircling Earth are the Van Allen radiation belts—vast, doughnut-shaped rings of highly energetic charged particles, mostly ...