The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Alien hunters are buzzing after astronomers discovered 85 potential planets outside our solar system that could harbor life.

Forecasts suggest that peak solar activity will make aurora borealis displays even more intense than usual in 2025. Here are ...

This flyby, the first of many at this distance, enables groundbreaking ... we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth ...

These areas, determined by their distance from the sun, serve as markers in the early solar system’s temperature gradient, linking the formation conditions of planetesimals and their present-day ...

"Parker Solar Probe is changing the field of heliophysics. After years of braving the heat and dust of the inner solar system ... For context, if the distance between Earth and the sun was ...

This pass, the first of more to come at this distance, allows the spacecraft to conduct unrivaled ... “By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, ...

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the ... when it will have swung away to a safe distance from the sun. Around 6:53 a.m. EST ...

For a few days, they simply won't know, at least not until the spacecraft — NASA's Parker Solar Probe — phones home with a simple "status beacon" on Friday (Dec. 27) to let its science team ...

The probe has already braved coronal mass ejections, major blowups that spew the sun’s plasma out into the solar system. The mission team is hoping for stormier solar seas that might illuminate ...

The three views of the Sun’s surface shown here are based on measurements taken on March 22, 2023, by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission. From left to right, you see the Sun in visible light, a ...

the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere composed of plasma. Although this is the closest distance to the Sun that an object launched into space by humans has ever reached, six million kilometers ...