An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

On Dec. 2, 1995, NASA launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also known as SOHO. This sun-monitoring satellite is a ...

NASA has released a new video of Earth's sun, capturing a giant 'orb' soaring past the blazing star. The footage has gone viral, with conspiracy theorists claiming the giant object is a UFO, pointing ...

The largest rainbowlike feature ever observed in the solar system was just captured by a newly launched spacecraft, as NASA scientists work to better understand the sun and forecast space weather.

The NOAA GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites saw a solar eclipse as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse was seen on Earth. In early September 2025, skywatchers in parts of the ...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the summit of Haleakalā on the island of Maui, Hawaii, captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun's surface. The ...

Solar "raindrops" — plasma streams and vast arches extending outward from the sun's surface and into the corona, the outermost part of the solar atmosphere — have been captured in spectacular new ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched three space weather spacecraft from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The missions include NASA's IMAP, NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1.

Comet 3I/ATLAS was expected to come within 130 million miles of the sun on Oct. 30. For the time being, 3I/ATLAS will remain on the opposite side of the sun from Earth, making it impossible to observe ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

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