The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a journey. Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer ...

A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one of our star's fiery outbursts — and Mercury is ...

There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun ... s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures ...

If you want to take close-up photos of the sun with your smartphone, consider purchasing a telephoto lens attachment. However, unless the attachment comes with a robust solar filter, be sure not ...

Learn how these advances in instrumentation could provide a better understanding of solar winds and improve space weather ...

There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of solar maximum was a key reason for the spike, but other factors were also at ...

Exactly 100 years ago today, a total solar eclipse came to the ... The total eclipse of the Sun (USA). January 24, 1925. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images) Geneva, NY—which saw ...

There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun ... s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures ...

The Parker Solar Probe is designed to explore the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere that's millions of degrees hotter than ...

Such regions are known by scientists as coronal holes. They are areas where the Sun's magnetic fields have opened up, allowing solar wind to escape freely into space. Coronal holes, which are most ...