NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make its closest approach to the sun. The spacecraft will fly within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface. The spacecraft is collecting essential data that can ...

The Sun released a strong solar flare on Tuesday, Feb. 3, following several eruptions in the preceding days, prompting ...

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A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

NASA is quietly entertaining one of the most audacious telescope concepts ever proposed: using the Sun itself as a giant lens. By steering a spacecraft to the distant region where the Sun’s gravity ...

A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

NASA says the sun is in the highly active "maximum phase" of its 11-year solar cycle. That means there will probably be big solar storms bringing beautiful aurora in the next year or so. Solar ...

On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface at a historic 430,000 miles per hour NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben NASA is ending the year by ...

Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year. Scientists will not be able to determine the exact peak of this solar maximum period ...

The colossal ball of hot gas at the center of our solar system will be lively for the next year, NASA said. The sun has reached its "solar maximum period," which is a state of heightened activity in ...