In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Launched into Earth's orbit last June, GOES-19 is the newest addition to NOAA's fleet, equipped with a sensor called the ...

Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its fuel (hydrogen and helium). Just like the ...

Astronomers have found the brightest known object in the universe—a glowing core of a galaxy, called a quasar, located 12 ...

Eleven-Year Cycle. The astronomers will be part of a “solar patrol” established to warn astronauts against possible danger from the sun, which by 1968 or 1969 should reach a peak in its eleven ...

The collapse of a cloud core can be triggered by many factors. One theory is that our Sun’s formation was initiated by a nearby supernova explosion. During this collapse, the central gas and ...

Sayonara! Posted by NASA Sun Science on Monday, October 28, 2024 The starry night sky has afforded astronomy observers and ...

The Laboratory of Solar Astronomy at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that this black cloud of plasma flowed from the Sun's corona and gradually dissipated ...

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 ...