As the moon wanes toward its new phase on February 17, the month's prime astrophotography window opens. These nights are ...
During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...
Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...
"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...
A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption.
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) links quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares to dynamic oscillations in magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon that can drive space ...