Launched into Earth's orbit last June, GOES-19 is the newest addition to NOAA's fleet, equipped with a sensor called the ...

Between spotting galaxies that shouldn't exist, capturing the interstellar medium with unprecedented clarity, and identifying ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

Such regions are known by scientists as coronal holes. They are areas where the Sun's magnetic fields have opened up, allowing solar wind to escape freely into space. Coronal holes, which are most ...

Learn how forces deep underground generate a protective bubble between us and space.

The Parker Solar Probe is designed to explore the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere that's millions of degrees hotter than ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the Sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past.