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Solar Orbiter spacecraft captures sharpest views yet of sun's surface (images)
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution views of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is solving long-standing mysteries about the sun. Here's what we've learned so far.
The goal of the Parker Solar Probe mission is to investigate the mysteries of the sun's corona, its outer atmosphere. What has it learned so far?
The sun's poles may have powerful magnetic tornadoes
The sun may have swirling polar vortices similar to those on Earth, but powered by a very different source, according to a new study.
Sun erupts with powerful X2.3 solar flare, triggers radio blackouts (video)
A X2.3 solar flare Wednesday morning (Nov. 6), leading to shortwave radio blackouts for parts of the southern hemisphere.
New NASA coronagraph will measure temperature, speed of solar wind from ISS
We're about to learn more about the solar wind, thanks to NASA's Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX), which just arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe flies by Venus before historic sun encounter
NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve.
X-class Halloween solar flare erupts from sun, causes radio blackouts (video)
The sun erupted with an X-class solar flare on Halloween, and solar activity is expected to remain high through Nov. 3.
Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA's groundbreaking new satellite (photos)
NOAA shared new images taken by the world's first operational space-based coronagraph, CCOR-1, captured during a solar storm outburst.
