NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun. Astronomers have been tracking the so-called ...

You’ve probably seen closeup images of the Sun before, revealing sunspots, solar storms or something else entirely. But you’ve never seen the Sun quite like this. These images were recently captured ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe made its ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only around every eight years, according to EarthSky. Typically, Venus orbits ...

Launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun, Parker has since flown straight through its crownlike outer atmosphere, or corona. Scientists hope the data from Parker will help them better ...