The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

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The impacts of space weather such as extreme solar winds and magnetic waves are not limited to outer space. Bursts of plasma emanating from the sun, for instance, can temporarily intensify electric ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.

Sharks can navigate via Earth's magnetic field, study confirms for the first time. Scientists have long suspected the fish can travel by sensing the magnetic field, but no one knew how—until now.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

Could cosmic radiation from a magnetic pole shift explain Neanderthal extinction? A new study from the University of Michigan ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took the image near the Sun on March 23, 2025, and it was announced on June 11, 2025.

New images are key to understanding solar magnetic storms and other space weather that can disrupt systems on Earth.