Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th ...

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

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The Parker Solar Probe has completed another daring solar flyby. NASA announced on Monday that the latest encounter occurred on June 19 and the spacecraft equalled its record distance of 6.2 million ...

There are many active solar probes and spacecraft today including NASA's Parker Solar Probe, orbiting closer than any probe has ever been to the sun's surface.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has uncovered a scorching “wall of fire” at the edge of our solar system. This thin shell of superheated plasma, detected near the heliopause, reaches ...

NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe on a mission to touch the sun on Saturday.

An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory capturing the CME racing toward us at 1,700 km/s. These ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic ...

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.