The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back one of the most detailed images of our star so far on its ...

The Inouye Solar Telescope just activated its most powerful instrument, VTF—a massive precision tool designed to unveil the ...

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Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.

Scientists confirm the Sun's charged particles can create water on the Moon. Learn how solar wind interacts with lunar soil.

A sudden flash of light in 2020 caught the attention of astronomers scanning the sky. That brief signal, spotted by Caltech’s ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

NEW YORK – A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes ...