Step aside, Darth Vader. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Joint EUV Coronal Diagnostic Investigation, also known as JEDI, has an even bigger task to balance the force in space, ...

The NASA/ESA Solar & Heliospheric Observatory captured a 'butterfly-shaped' coronal mass ejection erupt from the sun. Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO | edited by Space.com's edited by Steve Spaleta Leonard ...

Witness the northern lights in the northern U.S. and Midwest as solar maximum activity enhances aurora visibility.

Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are dramatic outbursts during which the Sun blasts charged particles into space at incredibly high speeds. These outbursts occur more often when the star is in one ...

A new mission designed to better understand the heliosphere will be the first to map in three dimensions how the solar corona becomes the solar wind.