Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back the first video ...

Europe’s Solar Orbiter has captured surreal video of the Sun’s atmosphere, revealing a slew of fascinating—and jaw dropping—stellar features. Reading time 2 minutes The recent total solar eclipse on ...

A spacecraft from the European Space Agency has captured new video of the sun's surface, showing plasma swirling on the star's "otherworldly" surface, according to a news release from the organization ...

Last year, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter drew closer to the Sun than it ever has, capturing a close-up video of the Sun's broiling surface. The video was captured in September by the Solar ...

A newly released video has revealed a gigantic plume of solar wind towering above the sun in a never-before-seen, "cyclone-like" configuration that emerged in the wake of a massive solar explosion.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to breaking records. On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker made history by flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The probe reached a distance of just 3.8 ...

Explosions of charged particles from the Sun, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), are being observed in more detail by a NASA mission aimed at helping scientists better predict space weather events ...

The sun is furiously demanding our attention again, flexing near the peak of its power with four eruptions at the same time. Video footage from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that, around ...