"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

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 sun is reaching a solar maximum. Here's what that could mean for Iowa and our chances to see the aurora borealis, known ...

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

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...

There are two giant holes in the Sun right now which could create impactful space weather for Earth in early February.

The coronal holes are regions where the Sun's magnetic field lines open out into space, allowing solar wind to escape more easily. They appear ominously dark when viewed in ultraviolet as they are ...

The 500,000-mile wide hole has cracked open the sun's atmosphere, leaving a gap over 62 times the diameter of Earth from which high-speed solar winds are now shooting towards us ...

A vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole has opened up in the Sun's atmosphere, which is now shooting high-speed solar wind ...

A coronal mass ejection from the Sun will reach Earth over the weekend. Experts predict not only the appearance of colorful lights in the night sky but also a magnetic storm, especially since the Sun ...