The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Data collected during last year's close encounter of the Parker Solar Probe with the Sun reveals the existence of inflows in ...

NASA is getting up close and personal with the Sun. On Christmas Eve the Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than any spacecraft, orbiting 10 times closer than the planet Mercury. Parker also ...

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface. The ...

Data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has enabled astronomers to map the unssen surface of the sun's atmosphere for the first time.

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.

Learn about the longest observation of an active solar region, a feat that could start a path to improved solar storm ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse of the Sun’s fiery behavior during powerful eruptions ...

Here’s what I know about the sun - it’s big, it’s hot and if I stay out in it too long, my skin starts to peel. But there’s so much we don’t know about it. And we’re going to learn so much more thanks ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its second of three planned close passes through the sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made ...

The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third time it has ...

BROUGHT A SAMPLE FROM THE BENNU ASTEROID TO EARTH. IN THIS PAST WEEK, RESEARCHERS SHARED THAT THE ASTEROID ACTUALLY CONTAINS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE. THE ASTEROID HAD A BRINY BROTH, THAT BROTH ...