The SNIFS sounding rocket launched on 19 July is an attempt to study the Sun's chromosphere, where the temperature, pressure ...

Harvey joined the National Solar Observatory in 1969 and led the team that developed GONG, the Global Oscillation Network Group. Six of the instruments are now spaced across the Earth.

BAE Systems (LON: BA) has successfully delivered two spacecraft in support of National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...

A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captures sunspot AR3341 blast a powerful X1.1 solar flare. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...