Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solar Orbiter found a sharp change in heavy-ion composition inside the Sun's vast heliospheric current sheet. (CREDIT: European ...

Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun's flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research ...

An enormous magnetic boundary stretching outward from the Sun is turning out to be more complicated than a simple dividing line. Measurements from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter show that ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study of data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter gives the most detailed view of the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) to date. The HCS is a ...