"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

A powerful X1.8 solar flare erupted on January 4, 2025, and was recorded at its peak—7:48 a.m. ET—by NOAA’s Solar Ultraviolet ...

Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.

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 within 6.1 ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.

The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...