The sun has erupted with a moderate M5.7 solar flare and a coronal mass ejection that could trigger a northern lights display ...

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A powerful M5.7 solar flare from sunspot AR4436 tore a huge cavity in the Sun's atmosphere and launched a coronal mass ...

The elemental composition of the Sun’s hot atmosphere known as the ‘corona’ is strongly linked to the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle, a team of scientists from UCL, George Mason University and ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Hannah Schunker, Lecturer of Physics, University of ...

After setting off back in 2018 on a history-making mission to study the Sun by getting up close and personal with its atmosphere, NASA's Solar Parker Probe has entered this region for the first time.

An illustration of the Parker Space Probe approaching the sun. NASA SHARE For the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched the outermost layers of the sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently flew ...

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest-moving object that humans have ever built. At ...