A Reddit user has captivated thousands of people with a crystal-clear image of the sun, produced using a specially-designed telescope. User ajamesmccarthy uploaded the image on Tuesday. Described as a ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...

A NASA observatory captured what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern-esque smile on the sun's surface, showing what are actually splotches on the sun's surface that are cooler than the surrounding ...