Between now and Saturday, 20 April, you can follow via the Internet the progress of the new-found Comet SOHO-422. Usually, comets seen by the SOHO spacecraft quickly burn up in the Sun’s hot ...

Solar eruptions and magnetic fields are not typically associated with artistic inspiration, but a NASA project is using these phenomena to give people a more creative awareness of the Sun’s volatile ...

Following their participation in the UK Showcase in Hollywood earlier this month, which brought together over 70 UK production services and facilities, Ascent Media opened the doors November 16 on ...

The Soho-5000 comet identified Monday appears in the smaller white box in the upper left hand corner of the NASA image captured by the SOHO spacecraft. Photo courtesy of ESA/NASA/LASCO G2/UPI March 27 ...

NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have released a set of unprecedented images representing a time lapse movie of Comet Hyakutake making its close approach to the ...

The astronomers in charge of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory issued an unusual response Friday to widely reported claims that pictures from the sun-observing satellite contained evidence of ...

SOHO comet 750 was discovered by the German amateur astronomer Sebastian Honig, one of the most successful SOHO comet-hunters. It was a part of the Kreutz family of 'sungrazing' comets, which ...

As people on Earth prepare to mark the passage of another year, a sun-studying spacecraft has quietly reached a big milestone of its own: discovering its 2,000th comet. The Solar and Heliospheric ...