Astronomers have successfully observed the previouslyinvisible corona of a supermassive black hole located in the distant quasar RX J1131, about 6 billion light years from Earth. Using the Atacama ...

Fine grained structures have been detected in the sun’s outer corona. In a paper published on July 18 in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of scientists led by Craig DeForest — solar physicist at ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our sun is surrounded by a deep, million-degree atmosphere that affects everything in the solar ...

(Nanowerk News) In 1610, Galileo redesigned the telescope and discovered Jupiter's four largest moons. Nearly 400 years later, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope used its powerful optics to look deep into ...

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve ...

While scientists have been learning more and more about our solar system and the way things work, many of our Sun's mechanics still remain a mystery. In advance of the launch of the Parker Solar Probe ...

With the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse only a few weeks away, astronomers have revealed what the sun's outer atmosphere is likely to look like as the sun disappears behind the moon. The Aug. 21 eclipse ...

In 1610, Galileo redesigned the telescope and discovered Jupiter's four largest moons. Nearly 400 years later, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope used its powerful optics to look deep into space -- ...