“This is the longest continuous series of images ever created for a single active region: It’s a milestone in solar physics,” ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

For the first time in the history of solar observation, NASA has made the Sun’s invisible magnetic behavior visible. Using footage recorded during a recent flyby, the Parker Solar Probe has shown the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab NASA's Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, a human-made spacecraft came closer to the Sun than any other piece of technology our species has ever made. The Parker Solar Probe, as it's called, came within 3.8 million ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...

By combining observations from two space missions, scientists were able to follow one exceptionally active region on the Sun ...

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...