The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...
Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...
Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field.
At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our ...
We explain this extraordinary phenomenon—and why solar flares and coronal mass ejections go together like spots on Dalmatians ...
A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to ...
The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Plans call for the NASA spacecraft on Tuesday ...
HUMANS have already reached the Moon – and Mars seems like the obvious next step. But how will we get there? There are ...
High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than ...
Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...
When two probes orbiting the sun aligned with one another, researchers harnessed the opportunity to track the sun's magnetic ...