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 ...

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 ...

This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA / ...

Polaris might be heavier — and spottier — than expected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In our solar system, scattered across ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is urging NASA to release high-resolution images of 3I/ATLAS that he says were taken Oct. 2. Loeb has said the interstellar object could be alien tech, rather than a ...

A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first expedition there ...