The NSO described the sun as "a plasma laboratory right on our doorstep" and said that the VTF's image gives promise that ...

Range Astronomy Astronomy is a science often focused on very distant and alien celestial objects, from radiating pulsars and ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, has reached a key milestone. Operated by the ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

SETI’s senior astronomer explains how colossal artifacts could be the key to finding extraterrestrial life, past or present.

While the spring semester is winding down, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is amping up its offerings ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

Using the Spektr-RG (SRG) space observatory, astronomers from the Russian Academy of Sciences have inspected a radio-loud ...

The world’s most advanced solar telescope just unlocked a new level of discovery with the first light from its Visible ...

Aditya-L1, a new solar observatory launched in 2023, wasted no time proving its worth. Just a few months after it was ...

At the core of the VTF are two extremely precise devices called Fabry-Pérot interferometers. These instruments scan the sun’s ...