Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in ...

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection, the process that releases stored magnetic energy to drive solar flares, ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest mysteries: how ...

NASA's mission to "touch" the sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the sun's surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...

On its record-breaking approach to the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the sun's atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the sun ...

The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft. By Katrina Miller On Dec. 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe swooped closer than ...

The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third time it has ...

There have been many missions our species sent to space, targeting anything from alien planets to other items of interest we wanted to know more about. But up until recently, humanity had never sent a ...