Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

The Sun is the centre of the solar system, and also the "apple of the eye" for many astronomers, as they have been vying for a closer look at the stunning star. For everyone, NASA has fulfilled their ...

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...

In May 2024, the strongest solar storm in twenty years raged. An international team led by ETH Zurich observed it. Their ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, a human-made spacecraft came closer to the Sun than any other piece of technology our species has ever made. The Parker Solar Probe, as it's called, came within 3.8 million ...

The Parker Solar Probe science and engineering team, a collaboration of scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and more than 40 ...

On Christmas Eve of last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made spaceflight history, flying by the Sun at a record-setting distance of just 3.8 million miles (6.12 million kilometers) from the solar ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.