An authentic NASA photograph shows the surface of the sun. Rating: Miscaptioned (About this rating?) Context: The image was the work of astrophotographer Jason Guenzel, who created it through a mix of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus transit across the sun The sun's intense brightness makes it unsafe for us to get a detailed view of it by traditional means ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

A NASA observatory captured what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern-esque smile on the sun's surface, showing what are actually splotches on the sun's surface that are cooler than the surrounding ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter is studying the Sun like never before. Just two months ago, it used Venus to leave the plane of the Solar System. It is now on a slanted orbit that will allow ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...