The biggest rainbow in the solar system was just captured by newly-launched spacecraft as NASA scientists study the sun and ...

PUNCH’s vibrant first images reveal the solar wind in a whole new light — literally. This ambitious NASA mission is set to ...

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On April 18, 2025, the WFI-2 instrument on NASA's four new PUNCH spacecraft took images ...

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby ...

As instrument commissioning and calibration checks continue for NASA's newly launched PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ...

On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

NASA’s new mission «Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere» (PUNCH), which includes 4 small spacecraft in low Earth orbit, has made the first photos of the Sun and the Moon. The goal of PUNCH ...

The mission has a Narrow Field Imager (NFI) and three Wide Field Imagers (WFIs). The NFI snaps pictures of the corona around ...

According to Nasa, these early images also help the mission team confirm that PUNCH's cameras are working properly. Nasa's Punch mission is made up four small satellites which are in low Earth ...