Heliophysics enters a pivotal year in 2025 with solar cycle activity, major missions, and a strategic research blueprint ...

Earth is now closer to the sun than at any other time of the year. Here's why our planet's axial tilt, not proximity to the ...

A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation.

The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.

The science of the sun and its effects on the solar system is a sprawling discipline that expects a very exciting 2025 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

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

In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798/RX J0648.0–4418.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a magnetic filament erupting on the Sun. The filament was "connected to sunspot AR3229" triggered a long duration M3-class flare and resulting coronal mass ...

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The Parker Solar Probe, part of NASA’s Living With a Star program, is a groundbreaking mission designed to study the Sun and its impact on the Sun-Earth system. This mission aims to uncover critical ...

One spacecraft eclipses the sun to allow the second to study the invisible solar corona. ESA-P. Carril @ESA A pair of spacecraft have been launched on a mission to help scientists get a better ...