AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

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The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are seeing it like never before. Thanks to the most powerful solar telescope ...

Coronal loops are arc-shaped structures of plasma that follow the Sun's magnetic field lines. They often appear before solar ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we can take that incredible fact and stow it away and largely ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new ...

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object cruises toward the sun.

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...