The prospects for substantial advances in solar and space physics depend on a significantly improved understanding of the key physical processes that are encountered in space. As emphasized in ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

Solar physics investigates the complex processes occurring in our Sun – the nearest star and a prototypical example of stellar activity. Central to the discipline is an understanding of the Sun’s ...

Particles within solar flares may reach temperatures more than six times higher than scientists previously believed—offering an explanation to a long-standing astrophysical puzzle about the Sun. This ...

The SETI Institute recently hosted the Joint IRIS and MUSE Science Team Meeting, bringing together more than 50 solar physicists from around the world for an intensive week of collaboration and ...

What processes are responsible for heating solar flares and what dangers do they pose to Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an ...

The sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day, it exhales a vast stream of charged particles ...

The Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in solar and space physics with the research community, the federal ...

Researchers have directly observed torsional Alfvén waves twisting through the Sun’s corona — magnetic waves first predicted over 80 years ago. Captured using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, ...

Astronomers using the Inouye Solar Telescope have captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar flare, revealing coronal loops as thin as 21 km wide. These threadlike plasma structures, imaged during ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has recently delivered groundbreaking discoveries, capturing images and data that bring us closer than ever to understanding the Sun’s elusive behavior. Published in ...

The use of better-quality data can improve the business case for a number of solar projects. Image: Photon Group. The integrity of a PV project largely depends on the quality of the solar, ...