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 ...

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WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON - On March 25, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Sungrazer Project reached a remarkable milestone – the discovery of its 5,000 th comet in data from the joint European ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The SOHO mission between NASA and the European Space Agency has detected its 4,000th ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and ...

The brightest comet of the year was spotted skimming just past the sun by a satellite orbiting our star. The comment, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January ...

Using data from the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory, scientists have produced the first three-dimensional (3D) views of massive solar eruptions, called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). When directed at Earth, ...

With some researchers predicting the onset of severe solar weather in a few years, NASA is planning to triple team the sun by keeping one ancient craft alive to provide critical support for two fancy ...

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.

When it comes to tools, the more they are used, the less reliable they can get. And, sure enough, while the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) instrument on NASA and the ...