The sun is Earth's closest star, yet its beauty is too intense to appreciate with the naked eye. Here are some of the most stunning solar images that our satellites and telescopes have captured.

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster.

The discovery reveals a hidden layer of complexity in the Sun’s magnetic landscape and showcases the Inouye Telescope’s ...

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

For the first time, images of the Sun's south pole have been captured by a space probe. This unique perspective provides ...

Menlo Park residents Lea Redmond and Sam Martinez-Colson have been neighbors for nearly two decades. Now they’re becoming business partners, opening a wine and cheese bar in their neighborhood ...

Listen to the Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon song and help your little one unwind before bed. To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played ...

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