In an achievement that defies conventional wisdom among astronomers, a trio of eclipse chasers has captured what experts confirm is the first documented observation of the solar corona during a ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have usedrare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent ...

A newly discovered comet, C/2026 A1 (MAPS), is generating excitement as it may become naked-eye visible by April 2026. This Kreutz sungrazer was detected at a record distance from the Sun, suggesting ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft — launched in February 2020 and taking the first-ever images of the sun at close range — has sent back one of the most detailed images of our star.

A team led by Shadia Habbal at the Institute for Astronomy — drawing on more than a decade of eclipse observations — for the first time clearly identified turbulent structures in the sun’s corona, ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have uncovered new clues about how energy moves through the sun's outer atmosphere, using one of nature's rarest events as their window: total solar eclipses.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solar corona, as viewed by Proba-3's ASPIICS coronagraph. ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS/WOW algorithm ...

The Sun’s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA’s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar eclipses ...

Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that builds on an earlier first-of-its-kind study that examined kinetic Alfvén ...

The sun's crown-like atmosphere can be 200 times hotter than the sun's surface, despite being farther away from the ultimate source of heat at the sun's core. How the corona's heat seemingly defies ...

Two European satellites created an "artificial total solar eclipse" in space, the European Space Agency announced June 16, delivering data that will improve scientists' understanding of the sun and ...

"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did it! This has opened the door to new dreams and challenges." When you ...