Understanding Solar Storms Solar storms, often referred to as space weather events, are a fascinating phenomenon that can ...

A vast and evolving anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field, situated above South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the ...

The video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at ... There are also magnetic fields interacting at the sun’s surface; it’s possible these magnetic fields are hitting each other with ...

As we near the spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, on March 20, the Earth's magnetic field and solar wind align, creating an increased chance of seeing the colorful auroras in the ...

A giant, black region of the sun — called a coronal hole — was spotted on Monday by NASA's Solar Dynamics ... high-speed wind reaches Earth, the particles and the magnetic field it carries ...

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. UPDATE: The Northern ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...

Their combined impact squashed the Earth’s magnetosphere—where the planet’s magnetic field interacts with the solar wind—down from ... predict when a CME will hit Earth, plus or minus ...

A geomagnetic storm disrupts Earth's magnetosphere due to interactions between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field. According to experts, the expected storm, classified as G3 ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...