A rocket carrying the first spacecraft designed to photograph solar wind crashing into Earth’s magnetic field is scheduled to ...

Solar provided over 11% of total US electrical generation in May, while wind + solar produced over one-fifth, and the mix of all renewable energy sources generated nearly 30%, according to data just ...

The sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day, it exhales a vast stream of charged particles that sweeps outward through the solar system at hundreds of kilometers per ...

This artist’s rendition shows NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, called the ...

"In the inner corona, a region very difficult to observe, we saw slow solar wind gusts moving three to four times faster than expected." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

"We didn't initially realize that Parker and Solar Orbiter were measuring the same thing at all — when we connected the two, that was a real eureka moment." When you purchase through links on our site ...

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter suggest that ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. What is meant by solar storm and solar wind? – ...

Sometime around 5:52 a.m. Central European time on May 19, 2026, a Vega-C rocket is scheduled to climb out of Europe’s ...