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

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

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 ...

Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...

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 ...

[NanoRobotGeek] has been living up to their handle and building BEAM robots that are smaller ... and often with solar power. Here’s a bunch of tutorials to get you started.