Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space.

Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar ...

Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field. The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in the upper atmosphere, such as oxygen and nitrogen, transferring energy to ...

The sun's corona is beautiful to observe, but it is also its most sweltering region. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solar ...

Southwest Research Institute’s novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA’s Interstellar ...

"This was a key objective of the mission and opens the way for us to study the solar wind's origin in unprecedented detail." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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An astrophysicist theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun's tenuous outermost layer differs from that lower down. His theory has recently been validated by combined observations of the Sun's ...

A study from an international team led by researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the University of New Hampshire in the United States has revealed the importance of the Earth’s upper ...