Sunspot AR3229 erupted with an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

Watch this one-week time-lapse of the coronal hole in the Sun's atmosphere from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Amazing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earth’s Sun has been heating up as of late, reaching its 11-year solar cycle maximum in October. Because of this, the bright orb in the sky has been emitting some of the strongest solar flares ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...