One of the ways that scientists study solar wind—charged particles streaming from the sun’s surface—is by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. But because the sun is so blindingly ...

Solar eclipse chasers are drawn to the fleeting moments of totality, when the sun’s outer atmosphere — called the corona — becomes visible to the naked eye. Now, thanks to an instrument ...

Billionaire backed Breakthrough Initiative funds new coronograph on European Very Large Telescope to get scope time to find and study exoplanets around Alpha Centauri. October 15, 2017 January 11, ...

NASA has reportedly shed light on a new plan to build a successor to the James Webb Space Telescope, The Habitable Worlds Observatory was announced Monday at the latest American Astronomical ...

The "Behind" member of NASA's STEREO spacecraft studying the sun has captured spectacular imagery of a rare somersaulting coronal mass ejection. A movie of the event combines images captured with ...

Hubble observations pinpoint planet PDS 70b. A coronagraph on Hubble's camera blocks out the glare of the central star for the planet to be directly observed. Though over 4,000 exoplanets have ...

This is an image of Comet Lovejoy as it moves ever closer toward the sun taken on December 15, 2011 at 4:30 AM ET. This image is what's known as a "coronograph" in which the camera -- the Large ...

NASA reportedly unveiled a plan to construct a successor to the James Webb Space Telescope, announcing the Habitable Worlds Observatory early last week at a conference.

CODEX, a solar corona observation device jointly developed by Korean and American researchers, will be launched into space on the 5th.The Korea Aerospace Admin ...

General Information Document Type: Special Notice; Solicitation Number: NASA-SNOTE-031218-001; Posted Date: Dec 18, 2003; Original Response Date: Original Archive Date: Dec 18, 2004 ...