Related: Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter team up to tackle 65-year-old sun mystery The goal of the Parker Solar Probe mission is to investigate the mysteries of the sun's corona, its outer ...

Using data from the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, researchers observed that sharp magnetic switchbacks smooth out into gentler waves as they travel further from the Sun. This relaxation ...

A solar jet captured by the Solar Orbiter unleashed a mind-blowing 200,000-fold increase in a rare helium isotope, 3He – far ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." ...

The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest ... rarity and puzzling nature of this phenomenon. While the Parker Solar Probe was in a favorable location, it was too far away to detect ...

On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe arrived within 6.1 million km from the star’s surface. This is a short distance to be from the sun: no spacecraft has ever made such a close ...

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 ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

It is basically a coronagraph that blocks the Sun to observe its corona (outermost atmospheric solar layer) which is full of mysteries. Scientists have discovered that the corona can heat up to a ...

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 ...