Watch this one-week time-lapse of the coronal hole in the Sun's atmosphere from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Amazing ...

Our planet was rocked by some of the worst geomagnetic storms in more than 20 years. Triggered by a slew of solar flares, the ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier to get to the Moon, or ...

On February 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun. The new Solar Dynamics Observatory was made to take the most detailed and comprehensive measurements of the sun ...

"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 ...

A solar eclipse on April 27, 2025, as seen only by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory. When is the next solar eclipse? Yesterday and today — but they were not reported in advance. Why? They were only in ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA are collaborating on the ‘International Living with a Star’ (ILWS) programme that will study the behaviour of the Sun and its effect on our planet. European ...

Scientists observed a single solar active region continuously for 94 days, revealing how magnetic fields grow and trigger ...

DYING COMET: Scientists at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif., have used the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument on board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The sun is currently in a period of low activity, moving toward what’s called solar ...