Scientists from the University of St Andrews have discovered that ions in solar flares can reach scorching temperatures more than 60 million degrees—6.5 times hotter than previously believed. This ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

Unlike a total solar eclipse, where the moon completely blocks the sun and makes it possible to see the solar corona (our star's wispy outer atmosphere) with the naked eye, a partial solar eclipse ...