Every few years, the sun seems to change its mood. Dark spots appear and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Sharpest-ever view of the Sun’s surface, using the NSF ...

We can't gaze closely in the direction of the sun, can we? Well, we could just now with this innovation. Courtesy of this breakthrough new camera devised at the Vacuum Tower Telescope in Tenerife. In ...

This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA / ...