NASA's Parker Solar Probe collected scientific data from the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, again, from March 6 and March 16, 2026, the space agency reported. Having been out of contact for around a ...

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 ...

Before a solar storm races across space and impacts technology on Earth, it starts with an explosive process on the Sun known as magnetic reconnection.

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 ...

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 events, revealing a more complex magnetic engine powering the solar wind.