Nasa has unfurled a solar sail in space for the first time, aiming to harness the propulsive power of sunlight for interstellar travel. The US space agency revealed that it had deployed the solar sail ...

With the launch of Artemis II planned in a few weeks, NASA is ready to monitor the sun during the mission in order to protect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather ...

The probe completed its 27th closest approach to the Sun this March.

Citizen scientists reviewing NASA data discovered unusually high Solar flare rates, helping researchers better understand the ...

A different kind of solar eclipse took place on X Monday courtesy of NASA’s sun and moon social media accounts. Monday marked a rare and highly-anticipated solar eclipse that took place across North ...

NASA’s experimental solar sail is ready to take flight in Earth orbit, using the pressure of sunlight to test a new way of propulsion through the cosmos. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System(ACS3) ...

NASA launched three sounding rockets at the moon’s shadow during Monday’s total solar eclipse to study how the phenomenon affects the Earth’s atmosphere. The first Atmospheric Perturbations around ...

On June 25, Tuesday, a small fleet of scientific instruments known as the Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) will be launched into 22,000 miles in space. Developed by researchers ...

They shared their research ahead of the next solar eclipse that crosses the United States on April 8. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...