The Latest Breaking News from Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA spacecraft snaps images of lunar transit and Earth eclipse on the same day — see the photos

The Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a lunar transit and an Earth eclipse on July 25 — the first when the moon passed between it and the sun, and another when Earth did the same.

LiveScience · Jul 28, 2025

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory back online after 2024 data center flood

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost."

Space · Jan 10, 2025

Broken water pipe knocks out data processing for NASA sun-studying spacecraft

Data processing for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and IRIS probe are down for a while, thanks to a burst water pipe in a server room used by the missions.

Space · Dec 2, 2024