A smaller 60-foot-tall NASA spacecraft known as a sounding rocket launched from New Mexico to study the sun's mysterious chromosphere and its corona.

The Sun is a massive ball of hot gases at the center of our solar system. It gives us light, heat, and energy, making life on Earth possible. It's mostly made of hydrogen and helium.

The total solar eclipse on August 2, 2027, stands out as one of the most remarkable astronomical events of the century.

Sunspot AR3311 have been extremely active since its emergence in NASA Solar Dynamics views. Seven m-class flares can be seen ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captures sunspot AR3341 blast a powerful X1.1 solar flare. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar ...

Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...

We have a very rare event on our hands," according to space weather forecasters. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our sites.

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

NASA will launch a sounding rocket Friday, July 18 from New Mexico near the Texas border. Here's what to know about the ...