San Antonio-built satellites on mission to stare at the sun, opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time last week.

ESA has compiled the largest image of our sun to date from 200 individual images taken by the Solar Orbiter. It shows the ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured another stunningly close look at the surface of our sun. DKIST has collected ...

Coronal holes are dark regions on the Sun seen in extreme ultraviolet and X-ray images. These areas have lower density and ...

The Corona Is Weirdly Hot: Parker Solar Probe Rules out One Explanation July 30, 2024 — By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-32 mission is to launch on April 21, 2025 Dragon spacecraft to deliver over 6,400 pounds of cargo to ISS ...

Why does the world store nuclear waste and just not shoot it into the Sun or deep space? – Jason, age 16, Mackay, Queensland.