Direct measurements near the Sun show that magnetic reconnection at the heliospheric current sheet energizes particles in the nascent solar wind, producing highly energetic protons and sunward ...

Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly “cheap” solar and wind power is added to the national power mix, and they can tell you by looking at their utility ...

Coronal hole and spacecraft latitude effects on solar wind velocity at simulated L1/L5. Left: STEREO-B 195 Å images with segmented coronal holes and meridional slices (15°) for two events in May ...

In a first for the US, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal last year, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. Coal fell to a historic low, ...

Without solar and wind growth, gas would have needed to rise by 9%— more than double its actual increase (3.3%)— to meet rising demand and coal’s small decline,” the think tank wrote.

KEY CONCEPTS. The U.S. generated a record 756,621 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity from solar and wind in 2024 — enough to power the equivalent of more than 70 million average American homes.

Trump hates wind. Is solar also in trouble? By Christa Marshall | 01/24/2025 06:43 AM EST . The president’s executive orders don’t single out solar energy, but his freeze on climate spending ...

A new study shows the benefits of coordinating the siting of solar farms, wind farms, and storage systems, taking into account local and temporal variations in wind, sunlight, and energy demand.

In February 2022, NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected a pocket of solar wind blasting from the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona.The probe, which is the fastest human-made object in history ...

For years, researchers have wondered what energy source allows the solar wind − a projection of charged particles from the Sun − to rush by at hundreds of miles a second.

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when robotic probes first left the atmosphere, scientists have known that the solar wind — a stream of charged particles released from the sun’s atmosphere ...