For the last 11 years, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft has been planted in orbit around the Earth, using a series of instruments to observe the Sun in exacting detail. This extended ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface – in its closest-ever approach on ...

Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...

A trio of telescopes captured a new view of the sun that reveals the star’s invisible light, including X-rays and ultraviolet light.

First ultraviolet imaging of Sun's ... 2024 — Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by ... 2024 — By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe ...

Solar Orbiter is currently collecting information on several solar phenomena, including the sun’s magnetic field, its activity cycle, and the solar wind – a constant, high-speed stream of ...

NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory has taken its 100 millionth photo of the sun with its Advanced Imaging Assembly instrument. The space-based observatory hit the photo milestone on Jan ...

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This region is about to have its day. On 26 June, NASA plans to launch the US$181-million Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The instrument’s ‘eyes’, working in the ultraviolet ...

As the Solar Orbiter continues its mission, NASA and ESA plan to use the spacecraft’s Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument to collect more data.

Solar Orbiter, which took the images, was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA in 2020. The spacecraft travels an incredible distance of 33km per second.