A powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of particles that shoot out from the Sun.

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

Due to its immense distance, the Sun appears from Earth as a gentle, radiant, and serene star. In reality, however, it is a turbulent, dynamic sphere of plasma with unimaginably high temperatures.

Researchers have directly observed torsional Alfvén waves twisting through the Sun’s corona — magnetic waves first predicted ...

Scientists warning regarding Earth could face severe disruption as rising solar activity. The storm that stripped Venus's ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...

Scientists have spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may explain why the sun's corona is much hotter than its surface.

For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its ...