On February 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...

Sun Region 4366 has produced dozens of solar flares since Jan. 30, "putting on quite a show," says Slooh President and ...

Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star.

The Sunspot Solar Observatory in Otero County, along with its visitor center, popular hiking trails and picnic area, remains closed more than 20 days after uncontained mercury was discovered on the ...

The most powerful solar telescope in the world has recorded a major milestone atop an active volcano in Hawaii, capturing a detailed image of a cluster of sunspots with the telescope's new Visible ...

The first mission in NASA's Living With a Star program, a slate of projects focused around understanding solar variability, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched Feb. 11, 2010. The spacecraft ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of coronal loops above an active region on the sun in mid-January 2012. The image was taken in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet ...

"Previously published in Solar Physics volume 275, issues 1-2, 2012"--T.p. Preface / R. R. Fisher -- The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) / W. Dean Pesnell, B. J. Thompson and P. C. Chamberlin -- The ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...