India is launching its first space-based solar observatory mission called Aditya-L1 to study the sun — just days after the successful landing of the country’s moon rover mission Chandrayaan-3. The ...

The Solar Close Observations and Proximity Experiments (SCOPE) mission will send a spacecraft into the solar atmosphere and follow an orbit with perihelion, aphelion, and inclination of 5 R⊙, 123 R⊙, ...

New, peer-reviewed results from the Hinode space mission (“Sunrise” in English) should help explain some long-standing mysteries of the Sun, such as the huge temperature difference between its ...

India's space scientists are celebrating their "first significant results": their maiden solar-observation mission could help protect the Earth's power and communication systems from destructive solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The European space probe Solar Orbiter delivers images of the sun, including observations of what is, from our perspective, its ...

X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO, taken by NASA NuSTAR. The field of view covers the west limb of the sun.

In May 2024, the Sun unleashed its most powerful space weather event in more than two decades. Brilliant auroras lit up skies far beyond their usual polar limits, while disruptions rippled through ...

In September, NASA announced that the threat of solar storms is reaching a new high, noting that the activities on the Sun's surface have intensified in the past decade. Solar storms can lead to some ...

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth’s exosphere, capturing ultraviolet images to monitor atmospheric ...