For the first time in history, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering crucial data about our closest ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

The Corona Is Weirdly Hot: Parker Solar Probe Rules out One Explanation July 30, 2024 — By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's ...

Some of the most promising materials for future technologies come in layers just one atom thick, such as graphene, a sheet of ...

More than ten years ago, researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson predicted that boron atoms ...

SEE ALSO: The most spectacular images of Venus ever captured NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which studies the sun, caught rare images of Venus' nightside during a brief encounter in February 2021.

That means it was extremely close. Closer than any other spacecraft, save the Parker Solar Probe. By getting so close, the Solar Orbiter was able to capture video of “coronal rain,” including ...

More than 50 years after its launch, a Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos 482 is about to come crashing back to Earth. It was originally intended to land on the surface of Venus, but it started to ...

The data will also complement NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, offerin... A giant 800,000 km coronal hole on the Sun is unleashing high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially triggering a G1 ...