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

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity. The image is ...

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The exocomet on its journey to exit the solar system will perform a rendezvous with Jupiter’s irregular moon Eupheme on March ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination, almost a month after launch. Since lifting off from French Guiana on December 25, the telescope has unfurled its tennis court-size ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity. The image is ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...

A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures. Reading time 2 minutes The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—is the piping ...

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