Astronomers Spot New Aurora in the Gases Around Uranus
Feast your eyes on Uranus’ glowing edges. We’re serious—a team of astronomers has spotted a new aurora on the seventh planet from the Sun, glowing at infrared wavelengths. What Is…
NASA’s Parker Probe Shatters Records During Latest Solar Swoop
NASA’s groundbreaking Parker Solar Probe continues to set new milestones, diving continuously deeper towards the Sun, and offering insights into the star’s enigmatic atmosphere and how it affects space weather.…
India’s First Solar Mission Begins Studying Particles Surrounding Earth
An illustration of the Aditya-L1 spacecraftIllustration: ISRO In a little over two weeks since its launch, India’s Aditya-L1 mission started collecting data to help analyze the behavior of particles that…
Parker Solar Probe Sails Directly Through Sun’s Intense Plasma Burst
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew through an ejection of coronal material as it passed by the Sun in September 2022, giving researchers new data to understand how the Sun’s superheated plasma…
Remarkable imagery shows NASA probe hit by a solar storm
A NASA spacecraft captured incredible imagery as it flew through an eruption from the sun recently. Pictures beamed back to scientists on Earth even show the fiery ejection “vacuuming up”…
Scientists ‘hack’ Solar Orbiter’s camera to get a better look at the sun
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft is performing a long series of flybys of various planets to bring it closer and closer to the sun on each pass.…
Clever Camera Trick Unlocks Hidden Secrets of Sun’s Atmosphere
Scientists behind a Sun-observing probe applied a simple hack to one of its cameras, allowing them to peer into rarely seen regions of the Sun’s atmosphere. The GoPro Hero 12…
NASA Spacecraft Will Reunite With Earth After 17 Years of Studying the Sun
For the past 17 years, a lone spacecraft has been following Earth’s tracks in its orbit around the Sun and capturing unprecedented views of our host star. Now, STEREO-A has…
Back-to-Back Solar Flares Knock Out Radio Signals Across the US
The first of the two flares, which was emitted on Saturday, can be seen on the right side of this image.Image: NASA/SDO That massive ball of hot gas at the…
Two-Faced: Wacky White Dwarf Keeps Its Surface Gases Separate
Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar remnant that keeps its light elements separate, in a strange first. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer Off English…