The Sun's rotation caused the coronal hole to face our planet and a blast of solar wind is en route.

What is the relationship between a star’s magnetic field and its space weather, specifically coronal mass ejections (CMEs)? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to ...

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During a coronal mass ejection (CME), the sun hurls billions of tons of magnetized plasma into space. These eruptions are among the most powerful events in the solar system, and when they are aimed ...

The sun routinely blasts charged particles into space, but similar outbursts from other stars have been mysteriously hard to spot. A new experiment suggests that the strong magnetic fields of some ...

A transequatorial coronal hole — one of the largest to rotate into Earth-facing geometry in months — is forecast to more than double the speed of the solar wind reaching Earth by Tuesday, July 22, ...

A physics team led by the University of Iowa has described a “super expanded” magnetic cloud created by a coronal mass ejection on the sun. The cloud’s dimensions were captured in two intervals of ...

(NEXSTAR) – It’s been months since the world was hit by the strongest solar radiation storm in decades, bringing the northern lights to much of the U.S. Another storm in space – albeit shaping up to ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Not one, not two, not three, but four solar storms are conspiring to potentially produce the richest display of Northern Lights since May of 2024. This has been a well advertised ...

When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the Sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the Sun is a complex, dynamic celestial body, wrapped in electrical currents and magnetic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The northern lights may be visible this weekend after the ...