After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, ...

New images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft are giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun’s volatile lower atmosphere and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind solar eruptions ...

This will increase its ability to visualize eruptions on the sun's surface. Those storms hurl particles and radiation into ...

The world's largest solar telescope, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, ...

The telescope has been installed with the world's largest spectro-polarimeter, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF).

"The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination." ...

With a primary mirror diameter of four meters, the Inouye Solar Telescope is the largest in the world. Thanks to the optimal ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

Nearly a decade ago, an explosion on the sun "contained components of three different types of solar eruptions". Studying the eruption could unlock mysteries on how they occur. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

“Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are clouds of electrified, magnetic gas weighing billions of tons ejected from the Sun and ...

The freaky phenomenon, known as a cannibal coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred after two solar eruptions decided to merge ...

Space weather may intensify in the coming decades with more frequent solar flares and eruptions to batter the planet. Whilst Earth's technology, including satellites and power grids, is likely to feel ...