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

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

Our sun may be due for an extremely powerful "superflare" outburst in the next few decades, according to researchers. Stars like our sun can experience one of these superflares once every century ...

This year’s report covered the gamut of solar and space physics, including how to better track the dynamic environment of our solar system and ... that would image the Sun at its poles.

"We were very surprised that sun-like stars are prone to such frequent superflares," said study lead author Valeriy Vasilyev from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.