The solar-powered Blue Ghost shut down on Sunday evening (March 16), shortly after the sun set over its lunar locale. The ...

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

to fully visualize how the Sun affects the inner solar system. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Each spacecraft also carries an X-ray sensor called the Student Thermal Energetic ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide ...

SPACE is a deadly place – and we're all living ... made difficult to detect because they're hidden by the glare of the Sun. These unseen rocks can't easily be identified and tracked.

The sun has morphed into a lifeless black circle ... at the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano, told Space.com. "I say precisely because I'm adopting here one of the possible ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...

Aditya-L1 gets an uninterrupted view of our sun, allowing the probe to observe solar flares as they're unleashed, as well as other activities that can affect space weather. Solar flares occur in ...

The Space Race Posted: February 24, 2025 | Last updated: February 24, 2025 For the first time, humanity has captured stunningly detailed images of the Sun from an unprecedentedly close distance.