Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plenty of spacecraft and telescopes have throughout the years been able to observe the sun up close – with plenty more missions on ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have ...

NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged China's Chang'e 6 sample return spacecraft on the far side of the moon on June 7. Chang'e 6 landed on June 1, and when LRO passed over the landing site ...

The NASA LRO Power System Electronics (PSE) architecture includes reliable standard internal and external communication buses, solid-state circuit breakers, and lithium-ion battery charge management.

Prior to the ESA releasing the photos, any image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around its equator. The Solar Orbiter launched February 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region. That is ...