AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied ...

Coronal loops are arc-shaped structures of plasma that follow the Sun's magnetic field lines. They often appear before solar flares, which occur when some of these magnetic lines twist and break, ...

Record-setting solar flare images show ultra-thin magnetic loops, a discovery that could sharpen predictions of space weather threats.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The record-breaking Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As ...

MAUI — After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a solar eclipse by ...