This famous “battle zone” refers to a phase of the solar cycle during which the appearance of giant coronal holes is observed ...

Two giant holes appeared on the sun's surface. They're called coronal holes, and they'll send solar winds toward Earth, revealing stunning northern lights. More from News Two giant holes appeared ...

Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field.

Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a phase of the solar cycle dubbed the "battle zone." ...

A giant hole about the size of 60 Earths has opened up in the Sun's atmosphere, scientists say. The dark area is known as a coronal hole and can be found on the outermost region of the Sun's ...

NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft has made the closest approach to the sun. Earlier this week, the Parker Solar Probe ...

The sun may produce extremely powerful bursts of ... These are often associated with a subsequent coronal mass ejection (CME), a bubble of magnetised plasma particles that shoots out into space.

Why it's so special: This stunning image shows the sun's corona during two total solar eclipses — on April 20, 2023, and April 8, 2024. The photo, snapped by a team of eclipse-chasing ...

Most of this activity lacks sufficient punch to harm us… but every now and then, the Sun erupts with a flare powerful enough to do serious damage. And we don't know how often such events occur.

This discovery presents some interesting problems, centered around the fact that previous research suggested the mass was one big black hole, thousands of times the mass of the Sun. But learning ...