Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

These fiery images are the clearest views we have ever had of the sun, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, is the ...

The Sun is nearing its maximum, the peak of activity that happens every 11 years. In the news, we hear regularly of coronal ...

and the magnetic fields of Jupiter and the sun are more powerful than Earth's. Even the entire Milky Way galaxy has its own magnetic field. It's about a million times weaker than Earth's ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

Without its magnetic field, life on Earth would not be possible since this shields us from harmful cosmic radiation and charged particles emitted by the Sun, a steady stream known as solar wind.

The magnetic field at the sun's poles and the ring of vortices have opposite polarity. Therefore, during solar maximum — the most active part of the sun's 11-year solar cycle — when the ...