Valentine's Day could bring a dazzling display of the northern lights for stargazers in some parts of the U.S.

Other than the Sun, no main sequence star has ever been detected to produce a CME. Similarly, direct detection of exoplanet ... depends sensitively on the properties of the shock and solar wind plasma ...

This Valentine's Day, surprise your loved one with a celestial spectacle as the northern lights grace the skies over select U ...

A typical sunspot on its own would be about as bright as Earth’s moon. Each sunspot ... brought by the constant solar wind.

They measure a CME’s speed and magnetic intensity, which is critical in calculating how the solar wind is about to change. Depending on the speed of the CME, the satellites give a mere 15-30 ...

Surging across the solar system from the sun, the solar wind carries charged particles that strike the planets, on Earth causing aurora, radio blackouts and, just occasionally, wreaking havoc with ...

(If you took a cup of tea and expanded it out to the same sort of density, you’d get a volume the size of the moon.) There’s almost nothing, but not quite. When the solar wind collides with ...