For six and a half days in July 2024, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III kept its gaze fixed on the sun. The ...

Sunrise III captured over 200TB of solar data during a stratospheric flight, giving scientists unprecedented insights into solar flares, oscillations and solar tornadoes.

A strong X1.3 solar flare produced a striking red, white and blue display in imagery from the Solar Dynamics Observatory over ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier to get to the Moon, or ...

Image of the Sun taken from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, showing the quiet corona and magnetic structures like coronal loops, which trace the intricate patterns of magnetic field lines ...

The National Science Foundation announced its plans to demolish the site.

Laura Wexler circled the date of the solar eclipse on her calendar weeks ago — and Monday afternoon she tried to circle it in her colander. “I was pretty sure I’d get here too late for the glasses,” ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...