Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency ...

Some U.S. states could be treated to a northern lights display thanks to a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies ...

During its two-year mission, the four satellites of PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, to determine how it transitions ...

Millions of people in the U.S. will be able to spot the partial solar eclipse on Saturday. Here's what to know in Tennessee.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived another close encounter with the Sun. The spacecraft reached perihelion (closet point ...

NEW YORK -- A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the ...

From their orbital placements, the PUNCH satellites will have fields of view that extend 1.5° to 45° from the Sun. This will give them a view from the corona — the Sun’s superheated outer ...

It is basically a coronagraph that blocks the Sun to observe its corona (outermost atmospheric solar layer) which is full of ...