NASA/GSFC/SDO On October 8, the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured a spooky sight in distant the sky: the sun looking like a menacing jack-o'-lantern, just in time for Halloween. Take a ...

NASA states It’s a protostar (a young star gathering mass from its environment) surrounded by a massive planet-forming disc.

NASA has been slowly working the Parker Solar Probe closer and closer to the Sun ever since its launch in 2018. The probe, which is heralded as the fastest object humans have ever made, has broken ...

The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. Case ...

NASA has released the closest photos ever taken of the Sun, captured by the Parker Solar Probe during a record-breaking flyby in December 2024. The images show the Sun’s outer atmosphere and solar ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) recently captured some mind-blowing images of the Sun from only 3.8 million miles away from its surface. The photos were taken late last year, and it is the closest any ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of 2025 PN7, a small quasi-moon that has been orbiting near Earth since the 1960s and may ...

Considered our solar system's largest explosive events, solar flares can sometimes be as strong as a billion hydrogen bombs. Those with enough energy output to rank as an X-class have the potential to ...

The image was the work of astrophotographer Jason Guenzel, who created it through a mix of real photography and digital editing. An i mage shared to Facebook in March 2025 claiming to show "the most ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...