Early returns from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s camera on NASA’s latest mission to study the Sun’s corona revealed on Dec. 4 a star more complex than ever imagined. NRL’s Wide-field Imager for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent ...

Launched in February 2020 to take the first-ever close-up images of the sun, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back humanity’s first clear images of the sun’s south pole.

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. In unprecedented detail, the visuals reveal ...

The sun looks surprisingly stringy and porous in a series of new images from the world's most powerful solar telescope. It's almost creepy. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has been observing the ...

The most detailed images of the Sun’s surface ever captured have just been released, and they are jaw-droppingly sublime. It’s the dawn of a new day in terms of our conception of the Sun, as ...