The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

This video takes you back to the groundbreaking moment when a Soviet probe successfully landed on Venus and transmitted the first real images from our closest planetary neighbor’s harsh environment.

In an unprecedented achievement, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached a historic milestone: the spacecraft has successfully completed its third and final approach to within just 3.86 million miles (6 ...

UPDATE 2: The Parker Solar Probe launched as planned at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday morning, and NASA celebrated the start of the probe's voyage with video and photos of the successful launch.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

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We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict ...