NASA's Solar Orbiter is set to launch into space on Sunday, February 9 at 11:03 p.m Eastern. And it packs ten powerful scientific instruments on board that will shed unprecedented light on our Sun.

Researchers followed a single solar hotspot for 3 months as it unleashed nearly 1,000 flares, revealing insights about our Sun's fury.

Practical Instruments has raised $8 million in a first round of funding to develop what it says is the most powerful solar “concentration” technology yet. It uses solar panels that track the sun as it ...

Fresh insights into long-standing solar mysteries and the first 3-D views of the Sun have been made possible by Lockheed Martin space instruments on two new Sun-watching space missions. Hinode, an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As Parker Solar Probe prepares for an unprecedented close-up of the sun, the new spacecraft sent ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EKO Instruments USA announces today that a suite of weather stations featuring the MS-80SH Pyranometer have been installed at the 110MW-scale Three W ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A serendipitous alignment of high-powered spaceborne solar instruments-designed and built by Lockheed Martin -has finally provided the data allowing ...

At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a ...

BERLIN - APRIL 30: An array of photovoltaic solar panels at the Berliner Wasserbetriebe are seen on April 30, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Germany has invested heavily in solar and other renewable energy ...