"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...

Scientists are looking to better understand how the solar wind occurs and what effects are sustained because of it with a team of heliophysics spacecraft equipped with some of the most sensitive ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies through the solar atmosphere. Scientists hope the mission will reveal new ...

New data from a constellation of satellites 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent ...

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

"The camera systems we've developed will provide an innovative view of the solar wind, helping scientists understand how ...

Parker is the fastest spacecraft built by humans ... sun’s outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface and what drives the solar wind, the supersonic stream of charged particles ...

The heliosphere is the vast bubble-like region around the Sun that extends beyond the solar system, formed by solar wind particles interacting with interstellar space. By using a technique called ...

While the solar wind protects Earth from other harmful particles coming from space, storms can also threaten our satellite and communications networks. The surface of the sun is blisteringly hot at ...

Nanometer to micron-scale dust is charged and accelerated to the solar wind speed, potentially producing orders of magnitude more damage upon impact than heavier dust orbiting at Keplerian speeds, ...