The solar wind is a continuous outward flow of plasma (ionized gas) from the Sun 's corona, its outer atmosphere. The Sun's corona extends millions of kilometers above the surface of the Sun (if a ball of gas can be said to have a "surface"). At these...

The area between the Sun and the planets, the interplanetary medium, is a turbulent area dominated by a constant stream of hot plasma that billows out from the Sun's corona. This hot plasma is called the solar wind. The first indication that the...

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles (i.e., a plasma) which are ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun. It consists mostly of high-energy electrons and protons (about 1 keV) that are able to escape the sun's gravity in part because of...

Was it a comet, or merely the solar wind? For nearly two years, Christopher Russell of the University of California at Los Angeles has been pursuing the possibility that a Venus-orbiting spacecraft in 1982 detected the invisible signs of the passage of...

A capsule containing part of the solar wind is due to make a dramatic fall to Earth ACCORDING to Homer, Odysseus was given a bag containing the wind to help him on his journey home from Troy. Unfortunately, his crew opened it...

They Blinded Me With Science! We just can’t get over the fact that there’s something called “The Science Barge” and that it’s docked at Riverside Drive and 70th Street. Apparently it’s “a sustainable urban farm powered by solar, wind, and biofuels, and irrigated by rainwater...

In an effort to further his bid to make Nevada the renewable energy capital of the world, Sen. Harry Reid last week released a report outlining the potential economic benefits of developing solar, wind, biomass and geothermal power stations in the state.The report states that...