Launched into Earth's orbit last June, GOES-19 is the newest addition to NOAA's fleet, equipped with a sensor called the ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a journey. Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer ...

A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one of our star's fiery outbursts — and Mercury is in the picture. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth ...

Coronal holes are areas where the sun’s magnetic field opens up, allowing solar wind to flow freely into space, according to SpaceWeather.com. In ultraviolet images, these regions appear darker ...

After it made its closest pass to the sun (perihelion) on Jan. 13 ... easy to see and photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) by Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner on Jan. 10 and American ...

But, if space scientists can spot what's happening on the Sun in real time, this can "work as a forewarning to switch off power grids and satellites and keep them out of harm's way". "India's ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun ... of topics including space exploration, planetary ...

These so-called "picoflares" are ubiquitous and are powered by magnetic field lines that stretch into space rather than loop back to the sun's surface, serving as cosmic highways that allow ...