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

A gigantic hole has opened up in the Sun's atmosphere and is currently big enough to spot from Earth. The structure located ...

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 ...

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 jets flash for around one minute, flinging charged particles at an ...

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

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

New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise ...

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.

Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.

NASA discovered erratic flickers in coronal loops before solar flares, hinting at an early warning system. This breakthrough ...