The Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft turns 10 this Friday, Dec. 3, having survived a trio of near-death experiences and outlasted its original mission timeline by eight years.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory just hit a milestone with its 5,000th comet detection. ... Additionally, the sun's magnetic field is known to shape and push the comets' stunning tails, ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

SOHO is an international exploratory spacecraft tasked with examining the sun. It also has identified 5,000 comets over the past 28 years, which NASA says makes it the world's most prolific comet ...

The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.

The SOHO mission was launched in December 1995, carrying an armada of scientific instrumentation designed to study the sun, its surface, its interior, its atmosphere, and so much more.

Wheeeeee! ☄️ ESA/NASA’s Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft spied comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS (entering from bottom right) as it darted toward the Sun.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passing about 8 million miles from the sun. NASA/ESA/SOHO/LASCO/K. Battams. The video was taken by an instrument on SOHO called the LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric ...

The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.