The Aurora Borealis stunned the nation last year, with dazzling light displays being visible as far south as Dorset, Essex, Cambridgeshire ...

Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, delivered two space vehicles for NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

Magnetic chaos at the Sun’s pole. Among the most surprising early findings is the disordered state of the magnetic field near the Sun’s south pole. Normally, a magnetic field has a clear north and ...

Scientists are particularly intrigued by what the Solar Orbiter's array of imaging instrument has revealed about the Sun's magnetic field at the south pole. Instead of a clear, single polarity ...

Among the most striking revelations is a region of magnetic chaos at the Sun’s South Pole, where north and south magnetic fields intertwine. This phenomenon occurs as the Sun undergoes a magnetic ...

Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home. The Orbiter, a joint NASA/European Space Agency project, lifted off in ...

For the first time, ESA’s Solar Orbiter has captured direct images of the Sun’s north and south poles, offering crucial insight into the chaotic magnetic fields during peak solar activity.