The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

Could the expected solar flares bring a greater chance of seeing the northern lights? Sophia Herod takes a look.

The sun is reaching a solar maximum. Here's what that could mean for Iowa and our chances to see the aurora borealis, known ...

The 500,000-mile wide hole has cracked open the sun's atmosphere, leaving a gap over 62 times the diameter of Earth from ...

The Sun's surface is a highly active region in the Solar System, with fissures opening up regularly that affect us on Earth.

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the Sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past.

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...

There are two giant holes in the Sun right now which could create impactful space weather for Earth in early February.

A vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere, sending high-speed magnetic tradition towards the ...

Did you know that the Sun has a magnetic field just as Earth does? And, every 11 years its polarity changes direction. This is known as a 'flip' - marking the point at which the Sun is halfway ...