As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...
Could the expected solar flares bring a greater chance of seeing the northern lights? Sophia Herod takes a look.
"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive 'tornado' on the sun in multiple wavelengths. Unlike the Earth, ...
More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...
The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years, which marks an important stage in the solar cycle. The shift in ...