It's easy to think of the sun as simply a bright, orange ball. But thanks to high energy X-rays dancing on its surface, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) was able to snap an ...

Scientists have discovered that the sun puts out more of this light, called high-energy gamma rays, overall than predicted. But what’s really weird is that the rays with the highest energies ...

In a record-breaking discovery, scientists detected our very own sun emitting an extraordinary amount of gamma rays — wavelengths of light known to carry the most energy of any other wavelength ...

Put some film (or these days, a digital detector) under the beam, and you get the shadowy picture we’re used to. But there are other sources of X-rays in the Universe… like the Sun.

Until, that is, we launched the Compton gamma-ray observatory, capable of measuring the highest-energy radiation. The Sun, in gamma-rays, is very quiet, as its emitted radiation tops out at X-ray ...

The robotic rover caught the rays of the descending sun as it started a new cloud-imaging mission on the Red Planet NASA's Curiosity Rover has captured a dazzling image of rays from the setting ...

Rather than deriving from the planet itself, those X rays arise in the sun and are reflected by the giant planet’s atmosphere, the researchers found. “It’s a very small proportion of the ...