Three missions aimed at observing space weather are set to launch Sept. 23 from Florida. Here's what to know about NASA's ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

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

Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the ...

The Sun drives plasma outward, enveloping our solar system, and this is known as solar wind. Beyond the protective ...

NASA is gearing up to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a mission aimed at exploring the ...

First, let’s explain what pickup ions are. Simply put, pickup ions are neutral particles that are "accidentally ionized" in ...

Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can forecast solar wind speeds ...

On September 15, 2025, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history by completing its 25th close flyby of the Sun, cementing its role as a groundbreaking tool in solar research. This achievement, as ...

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

The spacecraft will study the heliosphere, a vast bubble created by the Sun's solar wind. This bubble acts like a shield, ...