The Hubble Telescope appears as a tiny silhouette during a perfectly timed solar transit captured from Puerto Rico.

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

24P/Schaumasse will make its closest pass of the sun on Jan. 8, according to In-the-sky, when it will pass 109.7 million ...

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...

Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

If you want to capture the majesty of the Sun, you should probably ask an artist, but if you want to capture its raw power, that’s a job for a robot. While generations of artists have painted or ...

Several M-class solar flares erupt within just a few hours late Dec. 25. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the final hours of ...

A spacecraft just got the first look at the bottom of the sun, and what it saw was a hot mess — literally. Our host star, about 93 million miles away in space, is in utter turmoil right now, having ...

A partial solar eclipse will come to Earth on Saturday, March 29, 2025, as the moon passes in front of the sun. From Earth, photographers will capture images of a bite being taken out of the sun. From ...

So from Morales’ location, the telescope’s passage across the Sun was so brief that missing the precise moment would have ...