The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe conducts groundbreaking studies of the Sun, revealing insights into solar winds and space weather ...

There’s a lot less landmass, which negates the impact of perihelion. At solar maximum, the sun's most active phase of its 11-year cycle, produces more light, energy and solar radiation.

Images gathered during the flyby will beam home in early January ... expect the probe to have flown through plumes of plasma still attached to the sun, and hope it observed solar flares occurring ...