In an achievement that defies conventional wisdom among astronomers, a trio of eclipse chasers has captured what experts confirm is the first documented observation of the solar corona during a ...

On April 8, 2024, millions across the globe were captivated by the rare and mesmerizing phenomenon of a total solar eclipse.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft — launched in February 2020 and taking the first-ever images of the sun at close range — has sent back one of the most detailed images of our star.

On June 16, 2025, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) unveiled groundbreaking images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar corona, thanks to its Proba-3 mission. This mission achieved an incredible feat ...

NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie dataset from the 2024 total solar eclipse provides detailed observations of the Sun’s corona, including 52,469 photos from 143 volunteer-led observatories.

Professor Dame Carole Jordan, who has died aged 84, was an astrophysicist recognised internationally as an authority on the outer parts of the solar atmosphere known as the solar corona, and ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have uncovered new clues about how energy moves through the sun's outer atmosphere, using one of nature's rarest events as their window: total solar eclipses.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detailed an inverse relationship between the brightness of the solar corona and the velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in a paper published in The ...

The Sun’s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA’s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar eclipses ...

With the solar cycle set to peak earlier than predicted, the sun's corona should look its spectacular spiky best for April 8's total solar eclipse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Two European satellites created an "artificial total solar eclipse" in space, the European Space Agency announced June 16, delivering data that will improve scientists' understanding of the sun and ...

"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did it! This has opened the door to new dreams and challenges." When you ...