Sources: NBC
ISRO successfully launches the PSLV-XL rocket carrying the European Space Agency's PROBA-3 satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India, in a solar observatory mission to gather data about the Sun's atmosphere. 2024-12-5
The sun emits the largest solar flare since 2005, days after producing auroras in the Northern and Southern Hempisheres. 2024-05-14
India launches Aditya-L1, its first solar observation mission, to observe the solar corona, photosphere and chromosphere, and to study solar winds and solar flares and their effect on Earth and near-space weather. 2023-09-2
According to a study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, Venus would be able to support life if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the Sun nearly 4 billion years ago. 2020-10-1
In a rare celestial event, Mercury passes directly between Earth and the Sun for five and a half hours. Mercury's next transit will be in 2032. 2019-11-11
Astronomers announce, through the journal "Nature", the discovery of Barnard's Star b, a Super-Earth exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star, the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun. 2018-11-14
NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" spacecraft becomes the closest ever sent to the sun, by passing 42.7 million km (26.6 million miles) from the sun's surface. The previous record was set in 1976 by the "Helios 2" spacecraft. Parker's elliptical orbit will eventually take it to within 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) of the sun. 2018-10-30
At least part of Comet C-2012 S1 (also known as Comet Ison) emerged from behind the Sun's corona. 2013-11-29
An unusually large coronal mass ejection emitted by the Sun barely missed the Earth by nine days, dubbed the Solar storm of 2012. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide. 2012-07-23
The Solar Impulse, a solar plane, lands in Morocco, completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun. 2012-06-6