The Solar Orbiter, a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, captured detailed images of the sun’s southern region in March, something no other probe has done at close range.

In a groundbreaking mission, Solar Orbiter captures the first images of the Sun’s poles, offering new insights into solar ...

“We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” added Professor Sami Solanki, who leads the PHI instrument team from the Max ...

Amanda Stricklan, who attended South Anchorage High before studying physics and astronomy at the University of Georgia, is trying to identify patterns in how rain forms on the sun.

The sun has been photographed and imaged many times, but never from the top or bottom.

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami Solanki, who leads the PHI instrument team from the Max Planck Institute for ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

A textile engineer at Heriot-Watt University has developed a new material to boost flexibility and comfort of personal ...

Despite being some 5,500 times as massive as the sun, the cloud went unnoticed ... would appear to viewers on Earth as the largest single structure in the night sky — roughly 40 full moons ...

Envision the dramatic changes to gravity and our planet's structure if Earth matched the sun's size. Federal government spends $220 billion more in Trump's first 100 days than same period in 2024 ...

A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of the cosmos—to reveal that the largest-known structure in ...

Norway, famously known as "The Land of the Midnight Sun", experiences a natural phenomenon where the sun doesn’t set for weeks during summer and doesn’t rise for weeks in winter. This is due ...