"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter ...

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from ...

New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the sun.

The Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to study the Sun's poles - and finds the magnetic field in a state of flip ...

Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful ...

A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth ...

The mega solar storm that struck Earth is subsiding and the radiation is calming down after battering the planet's magnetic ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important processes like star formation, cosmic-ray movement, and materials mixing in space ...

The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon ...

The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could ...

New research led by a Southwest Research Institute scientist identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun.