Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Prof. WANG Rongsheng and Prof. LU Quanming, used data from the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct in-situ measurements of magnetic reconnection, capturing the exact 'spark' that ignites solar .

CEST on May 19, 2026, a Vega-C rocket lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the Solar wind ...

Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the latest ...

A rocket carrying the first spacecraft designed to photograph solar wind crashing into Earth’s magnetic field is scheduled to ...

Solar magnetic activity plays a pivotal role in driving a myriad of eruptive events in the corona, including flares, filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections. These phenomena arise from the ...

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The Sun’s solar wind is the name for a stream of charged particles which are ejected from the Sun’s corona, with generally two types being distinguished: slow and fast solar winds. The former type ...

The team of researchers stimulated a turbulent magnetic reconnection in which the Sun's anti-parallel magnetic field collide, beak, and realign dramatically. Thus, this unleashes a huge amount of ...

A new study led by researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled a novel mechanism for filament splitting and the formation of double-decker filaments.

A spacecraft plunging into the sun’s atmosphere has revealed the likely source of powerful blasts of plasma in fast solar winds. The solar wind — the steady stream of charged particles flowing from ...