While monitoring our sun's extreme environment, the veteran Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has seen some weird and sometimes unexpected things.
Dec 9, 2015 07:00 AM ET //
Sep 21, 2015 10:37 PM ET //
In 'The Martian', Mark Watney deals with a lot of dangerous situations -- food and communications being a couple of them. But what if his camp got hit by a solar storm? How could he protect himself?
Jul 30, 2015 04:38 PM ET //
As Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko approaches perihelion, the sun is heating up its nucleus and the solar wind is causing its tail to evolve. And the Rosetta mission has a ringside seat.
Mar 4, 2015 11:06 AM ET //
A new computer model of our sun's magnetic field suggests the shape of our solar system's heliosphere is stranger than we ever thought.
Jul 8, 2014 02:28 PM ET //
NASA's veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has been hit by a 'tsunami' from the sun as the mission pushes deeper into interstellar space. Continue reading →
Oct 10, 2013 03:06 PM ET //
You know expression: "not a snowball's chance in hell"? Well, this dirty snowball is rapidly falling toward its own version of hell -- the searing hot solar corona. Continue reading →
Aug 7, 2013 01:09 AM ET //
Every 11 years or so, the sun does something quite profound -- its magnetic field completely swaps polarity. That time has come. Continue reading →