The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ultra-powerful imaging tool. Here’s what you can see.

How to See Six Planets Lined Up in the Night Sky This Month—and Glimpse a Rare Seven-Planet ‘Parade’ in February While the planets are technically always “aligned” along the same plane ...

For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus, Mars ...

A narrow-band image of the Sun at a wavelength of λ=588.9nm, that of a well known solar sodium line also known as the “NaD line.” The image was acquired during recent first light efforts with ...

During an annular eclipse, the Sun, Moon, and Earth are perfectly lined up, but the Moon is at its farthest point from Earth, making it appear somewhat small compared with the Sun.

NARRATOR: Our solar system is home to eight planets, near-perfect spheres spinning through the darkness of space. But the more we explore, the more weird and wonderful worlds we discover.

Solar System: Icy Worlds. Season 51 Episode 12 | 53m 34s Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions | AD CC. Visit strange, frozen worlds to discover the bizarre ice that forms beyond Earth. Out ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory image of a solar flare on July 16, 2024 (main) and a stock image of Mars. The flare (on the right edge of the sun) was accompanied by a CME that ...