Our Sun

The Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon, the Fruit Moon, the Barley Moon, and the Corn Moon.

One of the CubeSats launching with Landsat 9 is the Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector, or CuPID.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory's Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE, uses sounding rockets for calibration.

Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness.

The images show Venus approaching from the left while the Sun is off-camera to the upper right.

New research led by NASA provides a closer look at a nearby star thought to resemble our Sun when it was much younger.

Artificial intelligence is being used to calibrate NASA’s images of the Sun, helping improve the data scientists use for research.

Scientists have discovered slowly oscillating swells in the Sun’s surface, with periods comparable to the Sun’s 27-day rotation.

For its efforts to untangle the long-standing mysteries of the Sun, the Parker Solar Probe team has earned a major award.

This composite image made from seven frames shows the space station in silhouette as it transits the Sun on June 25, 2021.

Scientists have used total solar eclipses for over a century to learn more about our universe, including deciphering the Sun’s structure.

A partial solar eclipse over the U.S. Capitol on June 10, 2021, as seen from Arlington, Virginia.

The Sun has revealed new clues that could help scientists solve the mystery of what causes its powerful and unpredictable eruptions.

New research confirms how particles from space can be sent careening down into Earth’s atmosphere to create the aurora.

After glimpsing faint but widespread super-heated material in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, a NASA sounding rocket is going back for more.

On Feb. 12, 2021, the European Space Agency, and NASA’s Solar Orbiter imaged this coronal mass ejection.

In 2012 Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. Now, it's yielding new insights into what that frontier is like.

This was the first direct measurement of the Venusian atmosphere in nearly 30 years — and it looks quite different from Venus past.

A suite of scientific balloons is about to lift off carrying instruments that will help scientists understand the connection between the Sun and Earth.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given scientists the first complete look at Venus’ orbital dust ring.

Zipping through space at close to the speed of light, Solar Energetic Particles, or SEPs, are one of the main challenges for future human spaceflight.

Zodiacal light is sunlight reflected toward Earth by dust orbiting the Sun. Juno scientists now think Mars may be the source of the dust.

Scientists think piecing together the story of switchbacks – rapid flips in the Sun’s magnetic field – is an important part of understanding the solar wind.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

During Parker Solar Probe’s seventh swing by the Sun, celestial geometry posed a special opportunity for other observatories.