NASA has released unprecedented images of the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe captured these during a December 2024 flyby. It ...

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured the sun blast a "huge rush of mass" that warped the magnetic field, according to the ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...

Watch how Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after traveling close to the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the its fateful dive.

A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research ...

“Now Parker has made direct observations of how magnetic reconnection at the heliospheric current sheet (HCS), where the interplanetary field reverses its polarity, energizes charged particles ...

A disintegrated comet has left behind a glowing dust cloud—here’s how to spot it before it vanishes from the northern sky.

The object takes its name from the Solar Wind ANisotropies, or SWAN, instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, spacecraft, a joint project of the European Space Agency and NASA.

New Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) Is About To Face The Sun And Should Soon Be Visible To The Naked Eye C/2025 F2 (SWAN) is getting closer to the Sun and becoming brighter.

Typically, comets are named for their discoverers, and this one is named after SWAN, a camera aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which first detected the celestial body.