NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has once again made history by achieving a speed that is almost unimaginable. During its recent journey through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed into the outer atmosphere of the sun and took incredible images of the sun’s corona. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Nour Rawafi, astrophysicist and Parker Solar ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has repeated its record-smashing performance of December 2024, swooping down within a scorching 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) of the Sun's surface. That distance ...

While making a death-defying dive through the sun’s atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly recorded a powerful plasma explosion heading toward our star’s surface in unprecedented detail.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its second of three planned close passes through the sun’s outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

The Parker Solar Probe was 1,500 pounds of ambition when it launched from Florida in 2018, on a seven-year mission to “touch the Sun.” The goal was to have the probe orbit 24 times, using Venus for a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - If you think 2,500 degrees is hot, try 10,000! This is the temperature around the sun’s surface. But this, of course, didn’t stop man from trying to get as close to it as ...

For the first time in the history of solar observation, NASA has made the Sun’s invisible magnetic behavior visible. Using ...