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.

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 ...

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

Solar physicists will make a new attempt to observe the chromosphere of the sun, which is the most dynamic region. NASA, ...

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through space, the vast majority are in solar systems, where they're gravitationally ...

The Sun has a huge scar on it after a solar filament exploded on the surface recently. Astronomers spotted a huge plasma whip ...

July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and ...