The Sun’s outflow is supposed to be a one-way trip, with charged particles streaming steadily into interplanetary space. Now NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has caught that flow doing something far stranger ...

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through ...

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...

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 ...

How does the Sun’s magnetic field react during solar storms? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to addr | Space ...

This artist’s concept depicts the boundary of the sun’s atmosphere that marks the point of no return for material that escapes the sun’s magnetic grasp. Deep dives through this area using NASA’s ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully swung around the Sun for the 27th time. The spacecraft matched its previous record of reaching 6.2 million km from the solar surface.

How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists from the ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study found that protons and heavy ions react differently to solar magnetic reconnection ...