The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a close flyby of the Sun on March 22, travelling at 692,000 kilometres per hour and approaching within 6.1 million kilometres of the solar surface.

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field ...

The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the revolutionary ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

ESA has compiled the largest image of our sun to date from 200 individual images taken by the Solar Orbiter. It shows the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...

The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms' on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the company, Firefly Aerospace, stuck the landing safely early Sunday, making it the first commercial spacecraft to… NASA prepares for Parker Solar Probe to ...

The Parker Solar Probe, which launched in 2018, is scheduled for one more flyby this year at approximately the same speed and distance from the sun, on June 19.