Far from Earth, a small robotic explorer has just delivered a surprise that planetary scientists have never seen up close ...
Proba-3 took an image of the Sun's inner corona every five minutes during an active period in September last year.
“This is the longest continuous series of images ever created for a single active region: It’s a milestone in solar physics,” ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...
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NASA has selected a proposed solar mission for further study as part of its Small Explorer programme, extending early design ...
NASA announced on Wednesday that the agency's "unprecedented" mission to "touch the sun" will be named after the renowned astrophysicist Eugene Parker, whose work has revolutionized scientists' ...
Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.