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." ...

Solar winds taking your breath away, giant coronal holes, and spectacular auroras ... alternates between periods of low and high magnetic activity. Currently, the Sun is approaching its solar maximum ...

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

Credit: NASA On a gas giant, the situation is different ... Sometimes turbulence in the Sun's outer layers creates "coronal holes," magnetic disturbances so large they could swallow the Earth ...

Spacecraft from NASA and other organizations captured rich imagery of our solar system in 2024, including views of Mars, Io, ...

While these outbursts from the active sun can pose ... object is the gas giant Epsilon Indi Ab. Only a "few tens of exoplanets" have been directly imaged before. Black hole shot a beam through ...

Composite images reveal how the sun's corona changed from one total solar eclipse to another in 2023 and 2024, just as solar ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

In 2018, NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what they call “a mission to touch the sun.” Since then ... Probe will zip through the solar corona at about 690,000 kph, passing ...

It will make the closest approach on Dec. 24, NASA said, and come into contact with the sun's upper atmosphere: the corona. Many may remember seeing the sun's corona during the April 8 total solar ...