On February 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier to get to the Moon, or ...

The first mission in NASA's Living With a Star program, a slate of projects focused around understanding solar variability, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched Feb. 11, 2010. The spacecraft ...

Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

Sun Region 4366 has produced dozens of solar flares since Jan. 30, "putting on quite a show," says Slooh President and ...

This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star.

Watch this one-week time-lapse of the coronal hole in the Sun's atmosphere from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Amazing One-Week Time-Lapse Capturing A Gigantic Coronal Hole On Sun Via NASA's Solar ...

"Previously published in Solar Physics volume 275, issues 1-2, 2012"--T.p. Preface / R. R. Fisher -- The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) / W. Dean Pesnell, B. J. Thompson and P. C. Chamberlin -- The ...

A solar eclipse on April 27, 2025, as seen only by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory. When is the next solar eclipse? Yesterday and today — but they were not reported in advance. Why? They were only in ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA are collaborating on the ‘International Living with a Star’ (ILWS) programme that will study the behaviour of the Sun and its effect on our planet. European ...

The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The sun is currently in a period of low activity, moving toward what’s called solar ...

DYING COMET: Scientists at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif., have used the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument on board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory ...