Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.
Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have traveled 25 billion ...
Every few years, the sun seems to change its mood. Dark spots appear and ...
The Sun has snapped into a hyperactive mood, unleashing a rapid-fire sequence of powerful eruptions just as a volatile sunspot rotates into direct view of Earth. The result is a wild solar flare ...
For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the fundamental driver of solar activity. The research, published in The Astrophysical ...
The direct effect of a large solar flare is not the spectacular luminous auroras, but rather, silence on the airwaves. As the ...