As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while ...

When two probes orbiting the sun aligned with one another, researchers harnessed the opportunity to track the sun's magnetic field as it traveled into the solar system. They found that the sharply ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

NASA monitors the South Atlantic Anomaly, a growing magnetic field disturbance affecting satellites and spacecraft.

The Moon held on to its magnetic field for most of its life — which could mean less lunar water available to future ...

On August 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to study the Sun and its environment. Since ...

"These explosions carry hot gas and magnetic fields away from the sun, and many of them just go out into the solar system and never hit Earth," Peter Gallagher, head of astronomy and astrophysics ...

The resulting ... Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun's Corona Sep. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by successfully producing detailed maps of the Sun's ...