"This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born." ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

Last September a team of researchers assembled in southern France. Their six month assignment: develop a new type of space mission, targeting a mysterious segment of the Sun normally hidden in plain ...

Activity on the sun is not constant; it varies along a cycle of about 11 years. The peak of this solar cycle — called solar ...

NOAA shared new images taken by the world's first operational space-based coronagraph, CCOR-1, captured during a solar storm outburst. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Google is testing a new project that could harness the sun to power data centers in space. Google's own research shows that space-based data centers could avoid draining resources on Earth. SpaceX and ...

TROY, MI - In space, the sun is always shining. So why not put a solar farm up there? One Michigan startup is already on its way, aiming to take an idea featured in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction 80 ...