The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...
A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...
Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.