The sun is Earth's closest star, yet its beauty is too intense to appreciate with the naked eye. Here are some of the most stunning solar images that our satellites and telescopes have captured.

NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the surrounding solar system. With four satellites now fully activated, scientists ...

“I’m pretty sure my best games are ahead of me,” Vasilevskiy told The Athletic. “I work hard for that. The game of hockey is our life. You always work for the best, and hope that your best years are ...

A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several ...

The bright green comet was discovered by an amateur astronomer just last month – but now it appears to have 'disintegrated' ...

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

The first images from a nascent NASA mission showcased the spacecraft's ability to take deep-field images of the night sky.

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

A dark patch on the Sun's face marked a coronal hole spotted in March 2013 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This image shows the Sun in high-energy X-rays using data from three space telescopes.

IT'S most well known for being a centre piece in the Love Island villa. But a fire pit can actually provide an aesthetically pleasing addition to a garden - and a practical one to boot. And you ...