The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

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

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on ...

Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers ...

The solar wind is matter that is blown from our sun, out into the whole solar system. This stream of material is coming out of the sun all the time – about a million tonnes per second.

We know that the sun’s atmosphere is much hotter than its outer plasma layer, a fact that seems to defy thermodynamics. Solar wind from the corona drifts outward, crossing 93 million miles of ...

"The solar wind squished Jupiter's magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...