Scientists have spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may explain why the sun's corona is much hotter ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...

Sunspot activity increases on November 1, 2025, as new regions emerge on the Sun. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic conditions are monitored by NASA/SDO and EarthSky.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

States like Florida, Texas and California are no strangers to routine rocket launches − but New Mexico? Spacecraft also sometimes get off the ground from the state. Space news coverage may be ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...

NASA's SDO captured a jack-o'-lantern-like face on the sun as a coronal hole sends solar wind toward Earth ahead of Halloween ...

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed the sun last year, snapping images that NASA released July 10. The images were taken 3.8 million miles from the solar surface, which is the closest any probe has ever ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed a face-like pattern on the Sun, creating a perfectly timed Halloween image.