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 ...

Explosions of charged particles from the Sun, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), are being observed in more detail by a NASA mission aimed at helping scientists better predict space weather events ...

A Black Moon rises tomorrow (Aug. 23), though you won't see it. Its timing makes it a rare lunar event. Tomorrow (Aug. 23), the night sky will play host to an unusual lunar event known as a Black Moon ...

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine for scientists. Captured by the Parker Solar Probe ...

Astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured the International Space Station transit the Sun. The NASA astronauts were ...

Two European satellites created an "artificial total solar eclipse" in space, the European Space Agency announced June 16, delivering data that will improve scientists' understanding of the sun and ...

Solar "raindrops" — plasma streams and vast arches extending outward from the sun's surface and into the corona, the outermost part of the solar atmosphere — have been captured in spectacular new ...

The largest rainbowlike feature ever observed in the solar system was just captured by a newly launched spacecraft, as NASA scientists work to better understand the sun and forecast space weather.

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

"One cannot get any closer to the real thing." Pictures from a simulated moon landing, not designed to fool anyone into believing a fake but rather to provide a reference to make sure that we can get ...