"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest ... with the ‘solar wind’ that fills and defines the solar system,” said PUNCH Principal Investigator Dr. Craig DeForest ...

"There's this really sharp spike, and then an exponential decay with time," said Lynn Wilson, project scientist for the Wind spacecraft at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ...

While the solar wind protects Earth from other harmful particles coming from space, storms can also threaten our satellite and communications networks. The surface of the sun is blisteringly hot at ...

Surging across the solar system from the sun, the solar wind carries charged particles ... Carter Working on the theory that predicting space weather means finding out where the solar wind comes ...

This mission further aims at investigating how the Sun’s corona transforms into the solar wind, helping improve space weather ...