CODEX should help scientists understand how the solar wind manages to reach scorching temperatures of around 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit (1 million degrees Celsius), which is 175 times hotter ...

When I asked her how the notoriously slow environmental study process for solar and wind farms can be sped up, she urged Congress to approve Biden’s request to increase funding for her agency ...

High-speed solar winds increase lightning strikes on Earth Date: May 14, 2014 Source: Institute of Physics Summary: Scientists have discovered new evidence to suggest that lightning on Earth is ...

The solar wind is a ubiquitous feature of our solar system. This relentless high-speed flow of charged particles from the sun fills interplanetary space. On Earth, it triggers geomagnetic storms ...

The Clean Energy Future Is Roiling Both Friends and Foes. Resistance to wind and solar projects, even from some environmentalists, is among an array of impediments to widespread conversion to ...

This discovery pointed to these regions as the source of the "fast" solar wind, which is seen over the poles of the sun and can reach speeds as great as 1.7 million mph (2.7 million kph), around ...

An animation of the solar wind shows particles streaming from the sun towards Earth. NASA "We will probably start seeing the effects of the high-speed wind on March 24," Young added.

The Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface — seven times closer to the burning ball of gas than any other mission has gotten.