The Sun is the largest object in our solar system. It is 109 times wider than Earth and can reach temperatures of 15 million ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...
NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day ...
The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...
G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...
Operations have resumed at the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) following the flood at its data center in late 2024. In ...
The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...
The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in ...
NASA is ending the year by accomplishing a record-breaking mission. On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew 3.8 ...
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas ...
An artist's conception of NASA's Parker Solar Probe passing through the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Credit: NASA ...
Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing ...