The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are seeing it like never before. Thanks to the most powerful solar telescope ...

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Katelyn Eaman can appreciate the power of the sun better than most. The geology graduate student researches how Mars’ now-barren landscape was carved and transformed by ancient waterways. That water ...

The world's largest solar telescope just captured the highest-resolution images of a solar flare to date — and they're spectacular. Researchers trained the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...

India is set to establish two new telescopes and upgrade an existing one in Ladakh, marking a significant advancement for observational astronomy.

The National Solar Observatory on Mt. Haleakala recorded this high-resolution image of a solar flare on the sun. According to the observatory, the image is about four Earth-diameters on each side.

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened during its farewell tour of the solar system.