The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

The researchers published their findings Dec. 13 in the journal Science. The sun is a gigantic ball of plasma whose charged ions swirl over its surface to create powerful magnetic fields.

The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning.

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...

Among its other discoveries, the Parker Solar Probe has also provided the first compelling evidence for the long-theorized but elusive dust-free zone around the sun, which is created by sunlight ...

Scientists also want to understand how coronal mass ejections, or large clouds of ionized gas called plasma and magnetic fields that erupt from the sun’s outer atmosphere, are structured. When these ...

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

When plasma falls to the surface it results in a dazzling display known as coronal rain 5 Record-Breaking Bird Migrations (02:56) Pesto the Enormous, Viral King Penguin Molts His Baby Feathers (01 ...

The only way to measure the sun's past activity is to look for evidence of spiking flares in preserved tree trunks and ancient glacial ice. However, these sources haven't allowed researchers to get a ...

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