The Parker probe was launched in 2018 as part of NASA’s Living With a Star program with the aim of “touching” the sun. It has circled the sun more than 20 times since to explore the flaming hot, outermost layer, the corona, which can uncover how the sun-earth system affects life and society.

Sunspot AR3835 erupted with an M3.4-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks. Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams, helioviewer.org | edited by Space.

These anomalies suggest a dramatic collision with another galaxy, likely triggering massive plasma outflows above and below the galactic plane. Dr. Alejandro Serrano Borlaff from NASA described this as a transformative event, shedding light on the dynamic ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach of the Sun on Christmas Eve, a record-setting 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the surface.This Christmas Eve flyby is the first of three record-setting close passes,

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

At 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface, Parker Solar Probe will be the closest a human-made object's ever been to our host star.

NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what they call “a mission to touch the sun.” Since then, the spacecraft has looped around our star 21 times, with the research team nudging the craft’s orbit ever closer to the solar surface.

Our sun is far from the flawless orb of light we see in the sky. Spacecraft observations have long shown that, up close, the "surface" of our star rumbles with powerful eddies and

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is expected to make a fiery dive close to the solar surface on the morning of Christmas Eve.

The age of the universe has a lot to do with its size—but there's more to the story.

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape,