NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph captured the blast that showed the sun's raw power in action.
Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...
The far side of the Sun has unleashed a spectacular eruption, hidden from Earth’s view but revealed through cutting-edge ...
Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...
Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...
The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series operated by NOAA.
The sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), into space. They often occur ...