Chip Clark / NMNH Most likely it came from the asteroid belt, that cosmic junk heap between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter that harbors rubble left over from the Sun’s formation. Plowing into ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured on video by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, and could provide ...

This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission. The four small satellites sent to low Earth orbit opened their eyes metaphorically for the first ...

Ever wonder how a spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from the Sun can keep its lights on? After all, solar panels ...

The scientists made a computer model of the solar nebula—the disk of gas and dust from which the Sun and planets formed ... organic molecules fabricated in space. Additional organic compounds ...

From Earth, photographers will capture images of a bite being taken out of the sun. From space, a fleet of satellites ... There's a large fuzzy outer shadow, called the penumbra, and a much ...

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said early on Friday. It flew into the Sun’s outer atmosphere — known as the corona — “at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour [692km/h ...

it blocks the direct light coming from the sun's surface to be able to see the much fainter light scattering from charged gas in its outer atmosphere, the corona. Credit: European Space Agency ...