NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, revealing new clues about the corona, ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in solar physics may have gained an unexpected new lead. Researchers analyzing ...

Parker's instruments are gathering measurements while the Sun is in an active phase of its 11-year solar cycle, a period marked by increased solar eruptions and flares.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of the Parker Solar probe flying near the sun - NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA this week announced the ...

Nasa's Parker Solar Probe completed its 28th close approach to the Sun, matching its record speed of 6,87,000 kmph while gathering groundbreaking data from the solar corona.

Next summer’s maiden, unmanned mission to the sun’s atmosphere will travel at 430,000 miles per hour, whipping the distance between New York City and Tokyo in about a minute’s time, NASA scientists ...

A researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a new study in The Astrophysical Journal suggesting that tiny charged dust ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere may have a dust problem—and that dust might be heating it up. A new study suggests that tiny charged grains near the Sun can change how energy moves through the corona, the ...

On July 20, 2018, Nicky Fox, Parker Solar Probe’s project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, and Alex Young, associate director for science in the ...

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