High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has directly observed magnetic reconnection in the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time, confirming decades-old theories about solar explosions. This discovery bridges ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

NASA measures radiation over Greenland to improve aviation safety and validate models that predict cosmic doses polar flight ...

Coronal mass ejections are powerful releases of plasma, electrically charged particles from the Sun. The Sun is constantly ...

Who knew a small magnet could hold the power to fix one of space exploration’s biggest headaches? For decades, astronauts have been haunted by a stubborn problem: producing oxygen efficiently in ...

Heart attacks in women aged 31 to 60 triple during geomagnetic disturbances * Magnetic activity affects the cardiovascular system by disrupting circadian rhythm and blood //pressure * Impact is more ...

In physics, we have a bunch of constants that are used in models to explain how the world works. These are fixed numbers that we plug into equations along with our variables. For example, the ...