A spectacular display of the Northern Lights may be visible across parts of the northern United States on Friday, March 15, ...

The wind is billowing out of a hole in the sun's upper atmosphere ... dark patches when viewed in ultraviolet and soft X-ray images of the sun. Coronal holes may superficially appear to be ...

Coronal holes across the sun can influence India’s monsoon rains. These holes release high-speed solar wind, which interacts with Earth’s magnetic ...

Forecasters said a coronal hole high-speed stream—winds from a cooler, less dense area on the sun’s surface—will likely result in a geomagnetic storm later Friday, marking a disturbance in ...

During March and September equinoxes, Earth's axis is parallel to the sun's. Magnetic fields of Earth and the solar wind momentarily coincide, creating "cracks" that allow charged particles to ...

A strong solar wind from a coronal hole — a dark area in the Sun's corona that allows wind to escape into space at high speed — is heading toward Earth and is expected to cause a minor ...

A colossal coronal hole, nearly 500,000 miles (800,000 kilometers) wide, has opened in the sun's atmosphere, spewing fast-moving solar wind toward Earth. The solar wind escaping from this coronal ...

Thanks to a high-speed solar wind streaming from a massive coronal hole in the sun, a geomagnetic storm could set the stage for a dazzling display of the aurora borealis on Feb. 14, 2025.

According to Met Office aurora maps, the best time to see the Northern Lights at the weekend is 9.00pm UK time, with up to a ...