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

Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat ...

To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.

When two probes orbiting the sun aligned with one another ... aim to extract fusion energy by confining extremely hot plasma in strong magnetic fields. Scientists have used a pair of lasers ...