The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Due to its immense distance, the Sun appears from Earth as a gentle, radiant, and serene star. In reality, however, it is a turbulent, dynamic sphere of plasma with unimaginably high temperatures.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of particles that shoot out from the Sun.

Scientists warning regarding Earth could face severe disruption as rising solar activity. The storm that stripped Venus's ...

A massive 500,000-mile coronal hole on the Sun is sending high-speed solar wind toward Earth, increasing the risk of ...

In Greek mythology, Icarus flew too close to the sun, melting his wings, causing him to plunge to his death in the sea below. But if you think his thrilling ascent carried him close to the sun, that ...

NASA is heading for a whole new level of harsh. Icarus got close enough for the sun to melt the wax in his wings. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe—set to launch in July 2018—is going to get far closer to the ...