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

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible ...

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European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter takes first images of the Sun's south pole. There are many active solar probes and spacecraft today including NASA's Parker Solar Probe, orbiting closer than ...

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 ...

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.

In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer to the sun than any spacecraft before ... Florida captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space ...

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

Earth-bound observers of the Sun can only see its equatorial regions because of our planet’s steady orbit in a flat elliptic plane. The Solar Orbiter was able to get below the equator, thanks to ...

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 ...

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.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected energetic particles from a powerful magnetic explosion as it ventured through the Sun’s corona, providing new information on magnetic reconnection, an important ...