Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in solar physics may have gained an unexpected new lead. Researchers analyzing observations from NASA‘s Parker Solar Probe have found evidence that tiny charged ...

A researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a new study in The Astrophysical Journal suggesting that tiny charged dust ...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA probe confirms helicity barrier changes how solar wind heats up near Sun. (CREDIT: NASA) The mystery of why the Sun’s outer ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — It was 1958. Sputnik had launched only a year earlier, the first human-made object to circle the planet. But the beachball-size spacecraft had no instruments to measure anything in space.

The mystery of why the Sun's outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona reaches temperatures of over a million degrees Celsius, while the surface ...