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The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe on Dec. 14, 2021, flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. (Video: NASA Goddard) ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies through the solar atmosphere. Scientists hope the mission will reveal new ...
The image above was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Dec. 2, 2023, through the project’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), which captures an image of the sun every .75 ...
The Sun is the star responsible for life on Earth. Without it, we wouldn’t be here, and it’s a constant fixture in our everyday lives. With all that in mind, it’s a real shame you’re not ...
This week, touch the sun with a NASA spacecraft, meet an unknown population of ancient people on an isolated group of islands, try to escape some sprinting dinosaurs, discover the animal with the ...
Last month, NASA commanded its SDO spacecraft to do a 360º roll on its own axis in the middle of the void of space. It did so while its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly camera was pointed at the Sun, ...
The sun seems a little less active than hundreds of similar stars in our galaxy, which could play a role in why life exists in our solar system. By Adam Mann The sun, like all stars, is a blazing ...