The NSSL, extending about 35,000 km beneath the Sun’s surface, is a region where rotational dynamics undergo dramatic ...

A global team of solar physicists has uncovered vast plasma tides moving beneath the Sun’s surface within a zone known as the near-surface shear layer (NSSL). These massive plasma flows are influenced ...

As rotation slowed, day length increased, altering the dynamics of sunlight exposure for cyanobacterial mats that populated ancient seas and land surfaces. To explore this link, researchers ...