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 ...

NASA is closely monitoring the South Atlantic Anomaly, which is a growing dent in the Earth's magnetic field that allows ...

When one of the poles points more toward the Sun than the other pole, that half of the planet gets more sunlight than the other half, and it’s summer in that hemisphere. When that pole tilts away from ...

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to ...

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri ...

Researchers have discovered a massive shift that is making Africa split apart and create a pathway for a new ocean - all much ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface to date ... can trigger glowing aurora displays on Earth, Mars and other planets.

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

“The solar storm launched will graze Earth to the west. Sadly, the coming fast solar wind streams might deflect the structure even further to the west. Expect only mild impacts by midday December 11,” ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface on December 24, its closest approach ever.

Parker will be at a distance of 3.8 million miles from the surface of the star ... which is aimed at “touching” the sun. Since then, the Parker probe has circled the flaming hot sun more than 20 times ...