On the morning of December 5, a pair of satellites ascended into the skies from India’s eastern coast. Their mission? To cast ...

First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun during an eclipse and sometimes when the particles hit the Earth’s ...

The Proba-3 mission aims to give scientists a better view of the Sun's corona, typically outshined by the Sun itself.

The more spectacular "umbra" creates a total solar eclipse, where the Sun's disc is entirely covered by the Moon, save for a delicate halo of scattered light coming from our star's outer atmosphere.

The corona itself—which appears as a white, wispy halo around the moon during totality—is about the same brightness as the full moon. So get solar eclipse glasses and safely watch the partial ...

On December 5, 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) achieved a milestone in space exploration with the successful launch of ...

UK and US scientists have been working on eclipse observations ... America are hoping to spend around four minutes in total darkness as the Moon blocks the Sun's light on Monday.