First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun during an eclipse and sometimes when the particles hit the Earth’s ...

But what is wind, and where does it come from? The Earth has a layer of air around it, called the atmosphere - and it isn’t equally spread. In some places, the atmosphere is thicker – there is ...

Fast solar wind from a massive coronal hole in the sun could trigger dazzling auroral displays as geomagnetic activity is ...

But it was Eugene Parker in 1957 who came up with the first theory of the solar wind. He worked out that matter was streaming off – escaping from the sun’s atmosphere into space. At first ...

Wind is a major sign that the atmosphere is trying to stabilize. High pressure flows to low pressure and New England is ...

The last couple of days have been very windy across the state of Maine, but you may be asking yourself, "What exactly causes ...