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 ...

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." ...

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

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 ...

A giant, black region of the sun — called a coronal hole — was spotted on Monday by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Despite the name, however, this isn't a physical hole in the solar ...

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.

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.

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

A pair of satellites just launched into space that may help scientists solve long–standing mysteries about the Sun's corona and how it ties in to space weather. Solar eclipses are a wonder to ...