Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was ...

An artist's concept of the TRACERS mission, which will help research magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s ...

The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made the closest flyby of the sun ever made by a spacecraft in Dec. 25. See the views it captured ...

Scientists are using the images and data collected by the probe to understand the sun’s impact on Earth and the solar system.

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail — the closest-ever images of our Sun are a gold mine ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter have captured the closest-ever images of the Sun. Flying within just ...

Two Stars in Solar Science It takes a lot of work to make space missions happen. Hundreds or even thousands of experts work as a team to put together the spacecraft. Then it has to be tested in ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe flying 6 million km above the solar surface. In unprecedented detail, the visuals reveal how ...