The SOHO mission between NASA and the European Space Agency has detected its 4,000th individual comet. The comet, called SOHO-4000, is tiny and hard to … ...

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), launched into solar orbit on Dec. 2, 1995, to study the sun and its influence throughout ...

ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams A citizen scientist on Monday found a never-before-seen comet with data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, making it the 4,000th comet to be ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer: Lacey ...

In April 2023, an unexpectedly strong solar storm caught scientists and the world by surprise. On April 23, Earth was struck by a geomagnetic storm that created vivid auroras visible as far south as ...

NASA said the Marsden group of comets likely is a subset of the larger 96P/Macholz comet. SOHO is an international exploratory spacecraft tasked with examining the sun.

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.

WASHINGTON – NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) now enables scientists to forecast solar radiation storms, giving future astronauts, traveling to the moon and Mars, time t… ...

NASA researchers using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft have developed a method of seeing through the sun to the star’s far side. The sun’s far side faces away from the ...

On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO -- the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft's 25-year history.

Observations from the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft have helped researchers develop a way of seeing through the sun and mapping its far side. The sun is filled with ...