ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

Astronomers believe they may have found the final resting place of Luna 9, the Soviet spacecraft missing since it landed on the Moon on February 3, 1966. On January 31, 1966, the Soviet Union launched ...

A video recently released by the ESA's Solar Orbiter and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory showed a magnetic avalanche on the surface of the sun.

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new series of images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun's volatile lower ...

Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

Since launching in February of 2020, the Solar Orbiter probe has been zeroing in on the Sun with a suite of instruments designed to unravel some of its secrets. Among those is an advanced ultraviolet ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A sun-studying spacecraft nabbed its first footage of a solar outburst before its science mission ...

During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...