A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted with a flourish. The bright light of a solar flare on ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...
For example, in September 2020, it flew within 8.4 million ... said during a recent NASA livestream. While flying so close to the sun doesn't hold any promise of discovering alien life there ...
Four compact satellites of NASA's PUNCH mission are prepping for a shared launch with the SPHEREx space telescope on a SpaceX ...
The brightest comet of the year was spotted skimming just past the sun by a satellite orbiting our star. The comment, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission—operated in collaboration with NASA—contributed the pictures. Solar Orbiter is a spacecraft launched in 2020 on a mission to take close-up images of the sun, ...
Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...
More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...
On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface while moving at 430,000 miles per hour, according to Nasa An artist’s impression of the Parker Solar ...
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) recently passed within 8 million miles of the Sun, capturing the attention of astronomers. Observed by NASA and ESA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the comet ...
This week, NASA published images of a comet surging a close path to the sun and a few epic 'post cards from the planets taken by NASA’s robotic explorers. NASA caught images from the comet C ...