Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...

Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) will pass close to the Sun on January 20, 2026, in a brief but powerful solar encounter that will make it a temporary star of the astronomical world. While it isn’t visible ...

Solar Orbiter has identified the Sun’s dual “engines” for superfast electrons: explosive flares and sweeping coronal mass ejections. By catching over 300 events close to their origin, the mission ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

This illustration lays a depiction of the sun's magnetic fields over an image of the sun captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange ...

In early September 2025, skywatchers in parts of the Eastern Hemisphere were treated to a total lunar eclipse as Earth blocked the sun's light from the moon. The eclipse occurred in the evening of ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of the Sun’s fiery behavior during powerful eruptions. In a groundbreaking observation, the spacecraft recorded superheated ...