Now, a team of researchers led by Professor Huang Xian from the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics ...

Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other ...

A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors.

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

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 ...

On Dec. 26, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe went where no mission has gone before and came within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the Sun’s surface, flying through the solar corona ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Hurtling through the solar corona at an astonishing 430,000 miles per ...

On Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. Eastern time, the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface, more than seven times closer than any previous mission has.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 and has completed 21 close flybys around the sun. However, its mission on Christmas Eve will be unlike any other. At 6:53 a.m. ET, the spacecraft is set ...

NASA has scheduled an early Christmas present for solar researchers on Tuesday, December 24, when the Parker Solar Probe will pass 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from the Sun ...